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Arch Hellen Med, 41(2), March-April 2024, 245-250

ORIGINAL PAPER

The single item burnout measure is a reliable and valid tool to measure occupational burnout

P. Galanis,1 A. Katsiroumpa,1 I. Vraka,2 O. Siskou,3 O. Konstantakopoulou,4 T. Katsoulas,5 P. Gallos,5 D. Kaitelidou4
1Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Faculty of Nursing, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens
2Department of Radiology, "P. & A. Kyriakou" Children's Hospital, Athens
3Department of Tourism Studies, University of Pireus, Pireus
4Center for Health Services Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Nursing, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens
5Faculty of Nursing, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

OBJECTIVE To estimate the reliability and the validity of the single item burnout measure in a sample of nurses in Greece.

METHOD An online cross-sectional study in Greece with 963 nurses was conducted. Data was collected during October 2022. Demographic and work-related variables of nurses, i.e. gender, age, chronic disease, self-rated health status, years of experience, and working in COVID-19 ward/intensive care unit were measured. The single item burnout (SIB) and the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) to measure occupational burnout were used. Moreover, the COVID-19 Burnout Scale (COVID-19-BS) to measure nurses' burnout during the pandemic, and the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) to measure anxiety and depression among nurses were used.

RESULTS Intraclass correlation coefficient between the two measurements of the SIB during the test-retest study was 0.986 indicating excellent reliability of the SIB. A high correlation between CBI and SIB (p<0.001), a moderate correlation between PHQ-4 and SIB (p<0.001), and a low to moderate correlation between COVID-19-BS and SIB (p<0.001) was found. Therefore, concurrent validity of SIB was excellent. Moreover, SIB had high discriminant validity. In particular, nurses with a chronic disease, those with a very poor/poor/moderate health status, and those working in COVID-19 ward/intensive care units had higher levels of burnout according to the SIB (p<0.001 in all cases). Moreover, a positive relationship between years of experience and SIB score (r=0.13, p<0.001) was found.

CONCLUSIONS The single item burnout measure is a brief, reliable, and valid tool that can be used as a screening measure to identify individuals at high risk of burnout.

Key words: Copenhagen Burnout Inventory, COVID-19 burnout scale, Patient Health Questionnaire-4, Single item burnout measure, Validation, Work.

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