TABLE 3.
Translating single item EE scores to their corresponding 5 and 7 item scale scores.
| EE1item5pt: “I feel burned out from my work” (numeric score out of 100) | N (%) | Mean EE9item score | Mean EE5item score |
| 1. Disagree strongly (0) | 503 (35.8) | 9.8 | 11.3 |
| 2. Disagree slightly (25) | 324 (23.0) | 26.9 | 31.0 |
| 3. Neutral (50) | 230 (16.4) | 43.4 | 49.2 |
| 4. Agree slightly (75) | 251 (17.9) | 53.6 | 64.0 |
| 5. Agree strongly (100) | 98 (7.0) | 74.4 | 86.1 |
| EE1item7pt: “How often I feel burned out from my work” (numeric score out of 100) | N (%) | Mean EE9item score | Mean EE5item score |
| 1. Never (0) | 198 (14.1) | 11.4 | 13.1 |
| 2. A few times a year or less (16.7) | 614 (43.6) | 21.8 | 25.4 |
| 3. Once a month or less (33.3) | 221 (15.7) | 35.4 | 41.0 |
| 4. A few times a month (50) | 197 (14.0) | 48.2 | 55.4 |
| 5. Once a week (66.7) | 63 (4.5) | 52.9 | 63.0 |
| 6. A few times a week (83.3) | 84 (6.0) | 67.6 | 78.8 |
| 7. Every day (100) | 32 (2.3) | 76.1 | 88.6 |
Possible EE scores range from 0 to 100. N missing for EE1item5pt = 3, for EE1item7pt = 0. EE9item, 9-item emotional exhaustion metric; EE5item, 5-item emotional exhaustion metric; EE1item5pt, single item emotional exhaustion metric using 5-point agree-disagree scale; EE1item7pt, single item emotional exhaustion metric using 7-point frequency response scale.