Burnout syndrome in students of the clinical cycle of dentistry at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña. dentistry at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña.

Burnout syndrome is related to the inability to cope with chronic work stress, consisting of negative behaviors and emotions, which also occurs in the academic environment, in this case affecting dental students due to the high academic load, thus affecting their performance. The main objective of this research was to determine the prevalence of burnout syndrome among students in the clinical cycle of the dental course at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña. The present study was observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, prospective and analytical, with the participation of 88 students in the clinical cycle enrolled in the term January-April 2023 at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña, using the Maslach Burnout Inventory student survey (MBI-SS) by Schaufeli et al. It consisted of fifteen items with six possible answers; to analyze the data obtained, descriptive statistical tests were carried out. As a result, it was found that 89.7% of the clinical students suffer from burnout syndrome, 38.6% of the students surveyed knew about the syndrome, the test of the relationship between the presence of the syndrome and the clinical cycle level was .001, that is, it was significant, on the other hand, the relationship between the severity of the syndrome and the clinical cycle level, the correlation test was .126 and its significance was .269, indicating a weak relationship between these variables. The syndrome was more frequent in the female sex and the most frequent level of the syndrome among the students in the clinical cycle was the intermediate level. This research was consistent with hypothesis H1: A high percentage of students in the clinical cycle of the dental course at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña suffer from BS.