ArticleJournal of the American Dental Association (1939)2021
Dental trainees' mental health and intention to leave their programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Article in Journal of the American Dental Association (1939), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 57 citations in OpenAlex.
- Impact of COVID-19 on Depression, Anxiety and Stress of Dental Students: A Systematic Review.European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe · 2025Pooled it
- Burnout increased among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2024Pooled it
- Meta-Analysis of Prevalence of Depression in Dental Students during COVID-19 Pandemic.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Pooled it
- Prevalence of Anxiety in Dental Students during the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- The impact and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health experiences of medical students in Hong Kong.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Prevalence and related factors of compassion fatigue among registered nurses and nursing students during the internship: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Development and validation of a machine learning-based predictive model for compassion fatigue in Chinese nursing interns: a cross-sectional study utilizing latent profile analysis.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Mediating effect of moral sensitivity and professional identity between moral courage and compassion fatigue among nursing interns: a cross-sectional study.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Review
- Perception of Virtual Education Learning among Dental Residents and Faculty during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study.Dentistry journal · 2024Article
- Stress-related experiences and intentions to quit studies among female married postgraduate distance education students in Ghana.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Dental and dental hygienist trainee satisfaction with their veterans affairs clinical training experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Distance Learning in Nursing Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Psychosocial Impact for the Greek Nursing Students-A Qualitative Approach.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Depression and opinion of dental students regarding the hybrid learning model during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Perceptions and Expectations of Academic Staff in Bucharest towards the COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Dental Education.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Dental trainees' mental health changes, sources of stress, coping strategies, and suggestions for mental health improvement 1 year into the pandemic.Journal of dental education · 2023Article
- Prevalence of Compassion Fatigue and Its Association with Professional Identity in Junior College Nursing Interns: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Assessment of dropout rates in the preclinical years and contributing factors: a study on one Thai medical school.BMC medical education · 2022Article
- Dental safety net providers' experiences with service delivery during the first year of COVID-19 should inform dental pandemic preparedness.Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) · 2022Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundDental trainees (dental students, graduate students, and postdoctoral residents) are at increased risk of experiencing poor mental health, which can lead to intentions to leave their program, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
methodsThe authors invited 355 dental trainees at the University of Washington School of Dentistry to complete an 83-item questionnaire in August and September 2020. The outcome analyzed was intention to leave their programs. There were 4 self-reported predictors: anxiety, burnout, depression, and COVID-19 impact on overall mental health. The authors ran multiple variable logistic regression models to evaluate relationships between each predictor and outcome (α = .05) and reported odds ratios (ORs) and 95% CIs.
resultsThe survey response rate was 35.5%. Overall, 12.7% of participants reported any intention to leave. In total, 22.2% and 16.7% of participants endorsed clinically significant anxiety or depression symptomatology, respectively; 28.6% reported 1 or more burnout symptoms; and 69.0% reported that COVID-19 affected their overall mental health. Participants reporting anxiety (OR, 8.87; 95% CI, 1.80 to 43.57; P = .007), depression (OR, 11.18; 95% CI, 1.84 to 67.74; P = .009), or burnout (OR, 8.14; 95% CI, 1.73 to 38.23; P = .008) were significantly more likely to report intention to leave than those not reporting mental health problems. All participants reporting that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted their mental health expressed intention to leave.
conclusionsPoor mental health is common among dental trainees and is associated with intention to leave their program. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS: COVID-19 has exacerbated the prevalence and consequences of poor mental health among dental students, highlighting the importance of providing wellness resources.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.