Burnout and psychiatric morbidity among medical students entering clinical training: a three year prospective questionnaire and interview-based study

Table 4 Variables predicting clinically significant psychiatric morbidity in third year undergraduate medical students, controlling for gender. (N = 80)

Predictors/explanatory variables	Crude OR	95% CI	p	Adj. OR	95% CI	p
Gender (woman = 1)	0.50	0.18–1.38	.181	0.32	0.10–1.03	.056
Impulsivity	2.01	0.82–4.92	.127
Negative affectivity	1.66	0.68–4.06	.265
PBSE	1.93	1.01–3.37	.045	1.48	0.74–2.98	.266
Disengagement 1^st year	3.64	1.08–12.26	.037	1.13	0.24–5.36	.874
Exhaustion 1^st year	2.23	0.80–6.17	.124
Depressive symptom load	1.16	1.04–1.30	.008	1.17	1.02–1.35	.028
Worries about future endurance/competence 1^st year	1.84	0.92–3.68	.084
Workload 1^st year	2.00	0.88–4.54	.096
Financial concerns 1^st yr	1.54	0.87–2.72	.141

Logistic regression. Adjusted model by method enter of variables with significant crude associations, Cox & Snell R² 0.16, Nagelkerke R² 0.23

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