Psychometric Evaluation of the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory for Nursing Students

Giampiera Bulfone; Sondra Badolamenti; Valentina Biagioli; Massimo Maurici; Loreana Macale; Alessandro Sili; Ercole Vellone; Rosaria Alvaro

doi:10.1891/JNM-D-20-00095

Psychometric Evaluation of the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory for Nursing Students

J Nurs Meas. 2021 Sep 13:JNM-D-20-00095. doi: 10.1891/JNM-D-20-00095. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Giampiera Bulfone¹, Sondra Badolamenti², Valentina Biagioli², Massimo Maurici², Loreana Macale², Alessandro Sili³, Ercole Vellone², Rosaria Alvaro²

Affiliations

¹ University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy giampiera.bulfone@uniroma2.it.
² University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
³ Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.

PMID: 34518398
DOI: 10.1891/JNM-D-20-00095

Abstract

Background: Higher education students, especially nursing students, have drawn more attention as a group that is vulnerable to the risk of developing burnout syndrome.

Purpose: To test the psychometric properties of the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory in Nursing (OLBI-N).

Methods: The OLBI-N validity and reliability was tested in a sample of 476 nursing students. The validity was assessed with explorative and confirmative factor analyses. For hypothesis testing, we evaluated the correlation between burnout and academic self-efficacy.

Results: Two factors (exhaustion and disengagement) were identified, and the confirmative factor analysis of the OLBI-N yielded a good fit. The OLBI-N was significantly correlated with academic self-efficacy (r = .29, -.37, p < .01).

Conclusions: The OLBI-N is a valid, reliable questionnaire for measuring burnout among nursing students.

Keywords: burnout; disengagement; exhaustion; nursing student.