Development and validation of self-report burnout inventory for doctors (SR-BOID)

Objectives: to develop a self-report burnout inventory for doctors,and to establish its psychometric properties methods: the study was conducted from august 2013 to december 2014 and comprised doctors from different public-sector hospitals in lahore and multan,pakistan. indicators for burnout were generated from the initial small sample of practicing doctors,while a larger sample was used for assessing the construct validity of the inventory. exploratory factor analysis was done endowed with six inter-related factors while retaining 50 items in total. results: the initial sample to generate the indicators comprised 40 doctors,while construct validity was assessed using a sample of 500 doctors. chronbach's alpha values were 0.70 to 0.90. the discriminant validity of the inventory,assessed with a sample of 200 doctors,revealed that it discriminated well between doctors with moderate to severe burnout and doctors with normal to mild burnout (p<0.01). conclusion: the self-report burnout inventory for doctors was a reliable and valid tool which can be used with doctors to assess their level of burnout. © 2016,pakistan medical association. all rights reserved.