Maslach Burnout Inventory

It is that burnout is a meaningful warning light in a larger system of health risks and deserves serious attention.

How do researchers measure burnout? The Maslach Burnout Inventory, or MBI, is the best known questionnaire and measures emotional exhaustion, cynicism, or depersonalization, and professional efficacy.

Other tools include the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory and the newer Burnout Assessment Tool, which also offers a free worker well-being questionnaire, or WellBQ.

These are useful research and screening tools, not lab tests or standalone medical diagnoses.

Methodologically, the review found that there was a very wide variation in how the different studies measured the conditions.

27 studies used something called the Maslach Burnout Inventory.

Well, depression and anxiety were measured using half a dozen different validated scales across the wider set.

So this is another reason why I think it's important for us to have these conversations.

This was by an American psychologist named Christina Maslach.

And the Maslach Burnout Inventory, or MBI, has been used in over 80% of studies in the last few decades.

The Maslach Burnout Inventory basically assesses three elements, exhaustion, compassion fatigue, and decreased performance.

It is the most commonly used measure, but others have been developed, including one by Gordon and his colleagues, which is based on a series of studies that they conducted.

And out of that, we developed a measure that has six key constructs.

So we define burnout firstly by exhaustion.

That is its cardinal feature.

Secondly, there is cognitive impairment, which is not captured in the Maslach Burnout Inventory.

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... to what you were talking about, and I read that in one of Christina Maslach's books, who you and I both know, but for maybe the listeners who don't know, she's the one that created the Maslach Burnout Inventory.

So since we're talking about burnout, it's right there in the book.

And we know that physician burnout costs the organization when physicians leave.

Sorry, just before you answer that question, probably, probably just for, for what we're talking about today, obviously Christina Maslach is like, you know, the, the, the queen, the person that's...

That come up with the, the Maslach Burnout Inventory, and just done loads of work around it.

What, what is her definition of burnout?

Yeah.

And there are like, there, there are ways to do some self-evaluation online.

There is a self-test called the Maslach Burnout Inventory.

And you know, there, there are a bunch of ways that you can do this online, but honestly, if you just Google Maslach, M-A-S-L-A-C-H Burnout Inventory, I think it's about 25 questions, and it will give you a rating of how close you are likely to burn out, if you're in it already.

And that is...