The Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of the COVID-19 Burnout Scale

Background: Because of the long duration coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, people may suffer greatly from common burnout caused by this virus. Objectives: Considering psychological consequences COVID-19, study investigated validity and reliability Persian version COVID-19 Burnout Scale (COVID-19-BS). Methods: The COVID-19-BS was prepared through forward translation, reconciliation, back-translation. method descriptive (psychometric). statistical population included all students Ahvaz Jundishapur University Medical Sciences, Iran, October 2020 to November 2020. Using convenience sampling method, 251 were selected. All participants completed Anxiety Syndrome (C-19ASS), Compassion (CS), COVID-19-BS. Convergent validity, divergent confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) used evaluate validity. Data performed using SPSS 25 LISREL 8.5 software. Results: findings supported single-factor structure a good internal consistency scale. Internal obtained Cronbach’s alpha for total score C-19ASS 0.72, indicating consistency. had positive significant correlation with (P = 0.01, r 0.37) negative CS -0.41), convergent scale