Examining the measurement equivalence of the Maslach Burnout Inventory across age, gender, and specialty groups in US physicians.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Disparities in US physician burnout rates across age, gender, and specialty groups as measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey for Medical Personnel (MBI) are well documented. We evaluated whether disparities in US physician burnout are explained by differences in the MBI's functioning across physician age, gender, and specialty groups.

Methods

We assessed the measurement equivalence of the MBI across age, gender, and specialty groups in multi-group item response theory- (IRT-) based differential item functioning (DIF) analyses using secondary, cross-sectional survey data from US physicians (n = 6577). We detected DIF using two IRT-based methods and assessed its impact by estimating the overall average difference in groups' subscale scores a

SUBMITTER: Brady KJS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8179856 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature