Validation of the Burden Transfer Inventory-abbreviated and examination across veterinary medicine positions and settings in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Burden transfer, when veterinary client caregiver burden underlies stressful encounters with providers, elevates risk for occupational distress in veterinary medicine. To date, burden transfer has been primarily examined in veterinarians working in general practice, using methods that are time consuming. The current work validates an abbreviated Burden Transfer Inventory (BTI-A) and explores burden transfer across positions of employment and veterinary settings.

Methods

Participants completed online measures of burden transfer, stress and burnout. A BTI-A with items representing each BTI domain was created with an initial validation sample (n = 1151 veterinarians). Confirmatory psychometric analyses were conducted in a cross-validation sample (n = 44

SUBMITTER: Spitznagel MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9614379 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature