11.09.2024 | Letter to the Editor
Comment on study by Hagan et al.: The Single-Item Burnout Question
verfasst von:
Mickey T. Trockel, MD, PhD, Colin P. West, MD, PhD, Tait D. Shanafelt, MD
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 16/2024
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Excerpt
Psychometrically sound measurement of physician burnout is requisite to systematic mitigation efforts. Hagan et al. published a review of available evidence on the reliability of a widely used single-item burnout question (SIBOQ).
1 The authors concluded that the SIBOQ is sufficient to identify subgroups with high and low burnout within a homogenous sample but insufficient to compare across samples or against a benchmark. Although the SIBOQ is an ordinal level measure with 5 response options, in practice it is transformed to a dichotomous measure, likely further attenuating its psychometric value. Hagan et al. add to previous evidence that demonstrated reliability of the SIBOQ fell short of 0.70, a minimum standard for group level assessment.
2 Both studies demonstrate high correlation of SIBOQ responses with scores on the emotional exhaustion component of burnout but not with the depersonalization component of burnout. …