Malay Language Translation and Validation of the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory Measuring Burnout

Abstract

This study aimed to translate Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI) into Malay language, and test its response process (face validity) and internal structure (factor structure and internal consistency). To the author's knowledge, OLBI is not yet validated in Malay language, thus this study aimed to produce a validated Malay version of OLBI (OLBI-M) in order to measure burnout among the healthcare learner population in Malaysia. OLBI has great potentials mainly due to its accessibility and free of any cost to use it, thus might promote more researchers to conduct burnout research in Malaysia. The forward-backward translation was performed as per standard guideline. The OLBI-M was distributed to 32 medical students to assess face validity and later to 452 medical students to assess construct validity. Data analysis was performed by Microsoft Excel, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), and Analysis of Moment Structures (AMOS). The face validity index of OLBI-M was more than 0.70. The two factors of CBI-M achieved good level of goodness of fit indices (Cmin/df = 3.585, RMSEA = 0.076, GFI = 0.958, CFI = 0.934, NFI = 0.912, TLI = 0.905) after removal of several items. The composite reliability values of the two factors ranged from 0.71 to 0.73. The Cronbach's alpha values of the three factors ranged from 0.70 to 0.74. This study shows OLBI-M is a reliable and valid tool to measure burnout in medical students. Future burnout studies in Malaysia are highly recommended to utilise OLBI-M. However, it is crucial for further validity to be carried out to verify the credential of OLBI-M.

Transcultural Adaptation of the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI) for Brazil and Portugal

“…Problems with item 13 also have been reported by Chevrier ( 2009 ). Item 13 has also been deleted from the OLBI-S proposal for Portuguese and Brazilian students (Campos et al, 2012 ) and OLBI's Malay version for students (Mahadi et al, 2018 ). In the Brazilian version for workers, that item was removed from the proposed reduced 13-item version (Schuster and Dias, 2018 ).…”

“…OLBI's versions vary across occupational groups and countries (see Table 1 ). In some countries—Brazil and Portugal (Campos et al, 2012 ), Sweden (Dahlin et al, 2007 ; Rudman et al, 2014 ), Slovenia (Kogoj et al, 2014 ), South Africa (Mokgele and Rothmann, 2014 ), Germany and Greece (Reis et al, 2015 ), and Malaysia (Mahadi et al, 2018 )—OLBI has a version for students. OLBI does not contain any factor correspondent to what the MBI calls “professional efficacy”; this dimension received criticism in some studies (Bresó et al, 2007 ; Marôco et al, 2014 ), and, in the opinion of various authors, it is not a core burnout dimension (Bakker et al, 2004 ; Demerouti and Bakker, 2008 ) but can be interpreted as a possible burnout consequence (Koeske and Koeske, 1989 ) related to personality characteristics (Cordes and Dougherty, 1993 ).…”

Impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of Singaporean GPs: a cross-sectional study

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Psychometric Properties of the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory in a Portuguese Sample of Aircraft Maintenance Technicians

“…Examples of burnout measuring scales include the Bergen Burnout Inventory (BBI; Salmela-Aro et al, 2011 ); Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI; Kristensen et al, 2005 ); Shirom-Melamed Burnout Questionnaire (SMBQ; Shirom and Melamed, 2006 ); the Karolinska Exhaustion Scale (KES; Saboonchi et al, 2013 ); and the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI; Demerouti et al, 2003 ). OLBI was already translated and validated for several populations and to different languages like English ( Halbesleben and Demerouti, 2005 ), Greek ( Demerouti et al, 2003 ), Tamil ( Subburaj and Vijayadurai, 2016 ), Malay ( Mahadi et al, 2018 ), and Portuguese ( Sinval et al, 2019 ). An adapted OLBI student version was already also validated for Greek and German ( Reis et al, 2015 ), as well as for Portuguese ( Campos et al, 2012 ).…”