Twenty-three statements about your work show how much exhaustion, mental distance, trouble thinking and emotional strain you notice in yourself. It takes about 5 minutes and gives an overall score and four scores from 1 to 5. It is a screen for burnout symptoms, not a diagnosis.
23 questions
about 5 minutes
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BAT: 23 questions. Shorter: CBI, BAT-12.
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What it measures
The Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) was developed at KU Leuven (Belgium) by Schaufeli, De Witte and Desart (2020) and tested on 1,500 Flemish employees. This page uses the 23 core statements of its work-related version: exhaustion (8), mental distance (5), cognitive impairment (5) and emotional impairment (5). Each answer scores from 1 (never) to 5 (always), and every result is the average of its answers. The authors' 10 extra statements on sleep, worry and physical complaints are not included.
This is not a diagnosis
Burnout cannot be diagnosed from a questionnaire alone: the authors say it takes an interview with a trained professional. Exhaustion can also come from depression or an illness, so if it does not pass, see a doctor too.
What happens to your answers
Your score is calculated right in your browser. Your answers reach our server only if you ask for your result by email: we write the email and do not keep them.
How is the BAT different from the CBI?
The Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI, Denmark, 2005) has 19 statements and rates personal, work-related and client-related burnout from 0 to 100. The BAT (Belgium, 2020) has 23 statements about work and also asks about concentration, thinking and control of emotions. Neither is a diagnosis. For the Copenhagen inventory, take: Burnout test
What score counts as high on the BAT?
The authors give cut-off scores only for Flemish employees: an average of 2.59 or more across all 23 statements is their orange zone (at risk) and 3.02 or more their red zone (very high risk). They come from a Flemish sample, and the authors advise local norms for other countries, so this page shows your scores without levels. Compare the four dimensions with each other.
I am not working right now. Can I take the BAT?
This is the work-related version, and every statement refers to your work. For people who are not currently working the authors made a general version in which most statements do not mention work. It is not on this page.
Source: BAT: Schaufeli W. B., Desart S., De Witte H., 2020, Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) - Development, validity and reliability, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17(24), 9495, DOI 10.3390/ijerph17249495. Manual: Schaufeli W. B., De Witte H., Desart S., 2020, Manual Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) - Version 2.0, KU Leuven (burnoutassessmenttool.be). Text: English work-related version of the BAT (23 core statements) as published by the authors on burnoutassessmenttool.be and in Appendix B of the 2020 article.
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