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EXHAUSTION & BURNOUT · CBI

How much is exhaustion affecting you?

Explore exhaustion in daily life and the fatigue you associate with work. The questionnaire adapts to your situation.

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Free test and results6 to 19 questions, based on your situationAdult version · Ages 18 and older
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The CBI describes exhaustion. It cannot diagnose or rule out burnout or establish its cause on its own.

Based on the CBI published by the National Research Centre for the Working Environment (NFA). In the relational questions, “clients” becomes “the people you serve” to include students, service users, patients, and other recipients of your work.

One test, three paths

For each situation, choose the frequency or intensity that describes your usual current experience. There are no right or wrong answers.

Which path would you like to take?

Each path includes every question from the previous path and adds a topic.

Your path

The daily-life path is open to everyone: students, parents, people who are employed, unemployed, or retired. Add work if it applies to you. The people you serve may be clients, students, service users, patients, or other recipients of your work. If you are on leave, choose based on the work you can assess. Only selected dimensions will be calculated.

RESEARCH WITH CONTEXT

What the science says

Copenhagen Burnout Inventory

A questionnaire focused on fatigue and exhaustion across different personal and work contexts.

The research

Kristensen and colleagues studied the CBI in the Danish PUMA project on burnout in human service workers.

What the test explores

Three separate dimensions: personal exhaustion, work-related exhaustion, and exhaustion related to working with recipients, patients, or clients.

The version offered

6 to 19 questions, based on selected dimensions. SFMU French and NFA English forms, with the recipient term adapted to include clients, students, service users, patients, and other recipients. Published orders, choices, and scoring are retained. This contextual adaptation is not a newly validated version.

What to keep in mind. No diagnosis or overall score. The reference of 50 used in some studies is not a diagnostic boundary. Mind has not independently validated this interface or the SFMU French translation. Working conditions and other causes of fatigue require consideration.

Explore the research
  1. Kristensen, Borritz, Villadsen & Christensen · 2005 · Work & StressThe Copenhagen Burnout Inventory: A new tool for the assessment of burnout — opens in a new tab
  2. Borritz et al. · 2006 · Scandinavian Journal of Public HealthBurnout among employees in human service work: design and baseline findings of the PUMA study — opens in a new tab
  3. NFA · Instrument & terms of useCopenhagen Burnout Inventory — PUMA scales — opens in a new tab
  4. SFMU · Questionnaire français publiéCopenhagen Burnout Inventory — opens in a new tab
  5. Nuss et al. · 2020 · Frontiers in PsychiatryFactors Associated With a Higher Score of Burnout in a Population of 860 French Psychiatrists — opens in a new tab
  6. INRS · Methodological overviewCopenhagen Burnout Inventory — FRPS 38 — opens in a new tab
The questionnaire, its translation, and AI are separate questions.

The research cited concerns the instrument and the populations studied. It does not automatically validate every translation, this digital interface, or a future AI-enhanced analysis.

Sources and terms of use

French is based on the SFMU form and English on the NFA form. In the six relational questions, “avec des patients” becomes “au contact d’autres personnes” in French and “clients” becomes “the people you serve” in English. NFA recommends adapting this term to the relevant recipients (first edition, 2004, p. 4). Original wording is retained in the repository; this contextual adaptation and the reading aids are not a newly clinically validated version. Published orders, response choices, and separate dimension averages are retained.

Copenhagen Burnout Inventory — Kristensen TS, Borritz M, Villadsen E, Christensen KB (2005). Source required by NFA: Borritz M et al. Burnout among employees in human service work: design and baseline findings of the PUMA study. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 2006;34:49–58.