Ministry Health Assessment
This assessment tool will help you assess your current level of ministry health and help give indication of burnout.
This assessment uses the Francis Burnout Inventory Revised (FBI-R), a clinically developed, 20-item instrument specifically operationalized for use among clergy and religious professionals. You can find out more information below if you’re interested in why we’re recommending this assessment, and how it works.
We do not keep these results, so save them for yourself at the end.
If you’d like additional member care resources please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. Additionally, you can or take our Care Review tool, or even take a look at a different Burnout assessment tool:
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Matthew 11:28This assessment evaluates two key dimensions of ministry experience: emotional exhaustion and satisfaction in ministry. Please answer all questions honestly based on your current experience. Your responses will help provide insights into your work-related psychological health in ministry.
As mentioned above, this assessment uses the Francis Burnout Inventory Revised (FBI-R) assessment tool. This measure is rooted in the established concept of balanced affect, which recognizes that positive feelings (assessed by the Satisfaction in Ministry Scale, SIMS) and negative feelings (assessed by the Scale of Emotional Exhaustion in Ministry, SEEM) operate as partially independent systems. Your results are presented as two distinct scores, and then this tool combines those scores to give one of four possible final results. This should provide a nuanced view of your psychological health while still identifying the risk of poor work-related psychological health when high exhaustion coincides with low satisfaction. The major reason we took this approach, and why we find it valuable, is because it acknowledges that high levels of satisfaction can mitigate the subtly harmful consequences of emotional exhaustion.
Attribution: This assessment instrument is based on the work of Fabri, J.M.G., Francis, L.J., McKenna, U., Roldão, L.I.F., Pereira, E.R., Village, A. and Caldeira, S., as published in Work-Related Psychological Wellbeing of Catholic Priests in Portugal: Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Francis Burnout Inventory, Journal of Religion and Health (2025). The final version of this open-access article is made available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 Deed | Creative Commons licence.
Link to Source: https://lbro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1222/1/Francis_work-related%20psychological_2025.pdf
Regarding Assessment Adaptation: Please note that this assessment, contains two minor contextual modifications to the Satisfaction in Ministry Scale (SIMS). The original two questions pertaining specifically to “pastoral ministry” and “teaching ministry”—roles commonly associated with traditional clergy—have been adjusted to use language relevant to missions resource creation and cross-cultural support. This was done to maintain the scientific intent of the scale, which measures personal accomplishment and positive influence, while adapting it for a specialized missions context. While the original FBI-R reports good internal consistency reliability (alpha coefficients of .89), this slight contextual variation should be noted by users. The core framework remains the balanced affect model, which views emotional exhaustion and satisfaction as partially independent systems.
(Tool is actually created by Keegan with help by AI for the coding – and I really do hope you have an amazing day. I love my amazing wife.)