Factor validity and consistency of the Maslach burnout inventory - general survey among Lithuanian general practitioners, community nurses and social workers
This document is an output from the project “Intersectorial collaboration solving health care problems in social risk families” (SIN-13/2012), funded by the Lithuanian Research Council.
Factor validity and consistency of the Maslach burnout inventory - general survey among Lithuanian general practitioners, community nurses and social workers Introduction: Burnout is important for the consequences of burnout are potentially very serious for the staff, the clients, and the larger institutions in which they interact. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) is currently the most widely used research instrument to measure burnout. The aim of his study was to perform the validation of MBI-GS (MBIgeneral service) questionnaire among human-service providers’ population in Lithuanian language. Methods: This was a cross-sectional survey of 426 medicine workers: 162 family practitioners, 175 nurses and 89 social workers, practicing in Kaunas region, Lithuania. The reliability, exploratory and confirmatory analysis was performed. Results: The internal consistency of questionnaire was acceptable (0.78) and Cronbach’s alpha in separate scales ranged between 0.75 and 0.90. The factor structure was examined using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Exploratory factor analysis discovered only one question does not perfectly fit the proposed MBI-GS questionnaire, the other factors fall in predesigned groups. The three factor MBI-GS questionnaire’s structure of emotional exhaustion, professional efficacy and cynism subscales showed rather good, but not perfect fit. Conclusions: The Lithuanian version of the MBI-GS showed adequate reliability and validity. Further studies involving other professional groups are needed.