Maslach Burnout Inventory and a Self-Defined, Single-Item Burnout Measure Produce Different Clinician and Staff Burnout Estimates.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinicians and healthcare staff report high levels of burnout. Two common burnout assessments are the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and a single-item, self-defined burnout measure. Relatively little is known about how the measures compare.

Objective

To identify the sensitivity, specificity, and concurrent validity of the self-defined burnout measure compared to the more established MBI measure.

Design

Cross-sectional survey (November 2016-January 2017).

Participants

Four hundred forty-four primary care clinicians and 606 staff from three San Francisco Aarea healthcare systems.

Main measures

The MBI measure, calculated from a high score on either the emotional exhaustion or cynicism subscale, and a single-item measure of self-defined burnout.

SUBMITTER: Knox M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6082224 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature