Prevalence and correlates of depression, anxiety, and stress in medical residents of a Brazilian academic health system.

BACKGROUND: Several studies correlate medical residency with the occurrence of mental health disorders, Burnout Syndrome and quality of life impairment. It has been demonstrated that mental health disorders increase medical errors and lead to less effective patient care. Considering such context, this study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of anxiety, depression, stress and to identify its correlates with Burnout Syndrome and quality of life in a sample of medical residents and fellow physicians of the largest Brazilian academic health system. METHODS: In 2017, 1648 participants were voluntarily and anonymously surveyed online about demographic characteristics, Burnout Syndrome, mental symptoms, and quality of life measured by validated questionnaires. Responses were captured through REDCap platform and multivariate statistical analyses were performed with STATA 15. RESULTS: A total of 606 (36.8%) residents/fellows physicians completed the survey. Depression symptoms were present in 19%, anxiety symptoms in 16% and stress symptoms in 17.7% of the sample. Burnout Syndrome was present in 63% of the sample. Multivariate analysis showed a statistical significant positive correlation between Burnout Syndrome and depression, anxiety and stress symptoms and a negative correlation between mental symptoms and quality of life scores. CONCLUSIONS: Mental health symptoms prevalence in this study is similar to other studies and their occurrence is positively correlated with Burnout Syndrome among medical residents/fellow physicians of the largest Brazilian academic health system. These results are relevant and must be confirmed by multicentric longitudinal studies. This study reinforces the importance of debating interventions to improve mental health among doctors in training.

Desenvolvimento de um sistema online de gerenciamento de um congresso / Development of an online system for management a congress / Desarrollo de un sistema on-line para la gestión de un congreso

O presente trabalho descreve e apresenta a avaliação do funcionamento do sistema online de submissão de resumos, bem como a avaliação, acompanhamento do processo e divulgação de informações criado especialmente para o 7º Congresso Paulista de Educação Médica, realizado em São Paulo no período de 21 a 23 de Maio de 2010. O sistema foi elaborado na linguagem de programação ASP e utilizou um banco de dados Access Microsoft®. A avaliação deste sistema mostrou um alto grau de satisfação entre usuários principalmente nos itens: facilidade de utilização e ambiente amigável. Além disso, facilitou no gerenciamento e recuperação das informações arquivadas.

This paper describes and presents the evaluation of the functioning of the online abstract submission and evaluation, monitoring the process and dissemination of information created especially for the 7th Paulista Congress of Medical Education, held in São Paulo in the period from 21 to May 23, 2010. The system was developed in ASP programming language and used a Microsoft Access database ®. The system evaluation showed a high degree of users? satisfaction mainly in the items: ease of use and friendly environment. It also facilitated the management and retrieval of archived data.

El presente trabajo describe y presenta la evaluación del funcionamiento del sistema ?on-line? de gerenciamiento de resúmenes, asi como: la evaluación, el seguimiento del proceso y la difusión de información, diseñado especialmente para el 7º Congreso Paulista de Educación Médica, realizado en São Paulo en el período comprendido entre el 21 al 23 de Mayo de 2010. El sistema fue desarrollado en lenguaje de programación ASP y utiliza una base de datos Microsoft Access ®. La evaluación de este sistema mostro un alto grado de satisfacción de los usuarios, especialmente en los puntos: facilidad de uso y ambiente agradable. Además, facilita la gestión y recuperación de la información archivada.