Questionnaire on the Relationship Between Narrative Competence and Occupational Burnout Among Chinese Medical Practitioners

The scale contains 38 items covering five dimensions: life and health (8 items), family connection (8 items), career development (9 items), peer communication (4 items), and doctor-patient interaction (9 items). A 4-point Likert scoring method was applied, with scores ranging from 1 to 4 corresponding to "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree". The total scale score is the sum of scores of all items, ranging from 38 to 152.(3) Maslach Burnout Inventory: Translated and revised by Chinese scholar Li Chaoping, consisting of 15 items categorized into three dimensions: emotional exhaustion (5 items), depersonalization (4 items), and reduced personal accomplishment (6 items).

Each item adopts a 7-point Likert scoring method, with scores from 0 to 6 representing "never" to "every day". The score of each dimension is calculated as the sum of item scores within the dimension divided by the number of items. The total occupational burnout score = emotional exhaustion × 0.4 + depersonalization × 0.3 + reduced personal accomplishment × 0.3.

Participants with a total score higher than 1.5 were defined as having occupational burnout; those with a total burnout score of 1.5 ≤ score ＜ 3.5 were classified as mild-to-moderate burnout, and those with a score ≥ 3.5 were classified as severe burnout.The data of this study do not involve personal private information, and all identifiers have been desensitized. The data are of good quality and can be used for repeated analysis, secondary research or meta-analysis.