Abstract
Health care personnel are considered one of the worker sectors most exposed to heavier workloads and work stress. One of the consequences associated with the exposure to chronic stress is the development of burnout syndrome. Given that evaluating this syndrome requires addressing the context in which they are to be used, the purpose of this work was to analyze the psychometric properties and structure of the Burnout Brief Questionnaire (CBB), and to propose a more suitable version for its application to health professionals, and more specifically nurses. The final study sample was made up of 1236 working nursing professionals. An exploratory factorial analysis was carried out and a new model was proposed through a confirmatory factorial analysis. Thus, validation of the CBB questionnaire for nursing health care personnel showed an adequate discrimination of the items and a high internal consistency of the scale. With respect to the factorial analysis, four factors were extracted from the revised model. Specifically, these new factors, called job dissatisfaction, social climate, personal impact, and motivational abandonment, showed an adequate index of adjustment. Thus, the Brief Burnout Questionnaire Revised for nursing staff has favorable psychometric properties, and this model can be applied to all health care professionals.
Highlights
The number of health care workers in Spain increases year after year, as the number of official association members testifies, in fields such as medicine, which in 2015 increased by 1.9%
According to the Encyclopedia of Mental Health, burnout syndrome is a type of response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stress factors at work, which is recognized as a serious occupational hazard [6]
The Brief Burnout Questionnaire Revised for health care personnel in nursing has favorable psychometric properties
Summary
The number of health care workers in Spain increases year after year, as the number of official association members testifies, in fields such as medicine, which in 2015 increased by 1.9%. The role of nursing personnel is more and more important, and the emotional skills and stressful work climate of nurses must be taken into account, but for them, as there are studies analyzing these factors even in students of physiotherapy, for example [3]. According to the Encyclopedia of Mental Health, burnout syndrome is a type of response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stress factors at work, which is recognized as a serious occupational hazard [6]. The presence of stressors at work maintained over long periods of time can cause burnout in workers, especially those who maintain a constant direct care relationship with service users, as is the case of health care personnel [7], this syndrome may be discussed in other areas [8,9,10]
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