Interpretación de las puntuaciones obtenidas con la Escala Breve de Calidad de Vida Profesional

Background: The Professional Quality of Life Scale, known by its acronym in English, ProQOL, is one of the most used in the context of health professionals to assess professional quality of life. Recently, a short version of this scale has been presented, the Short Professional Life Quality Scale. The aim of this work is to offer brief guides for the interpretation of the scores obtained with this scale. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in Spanish palliative care professionals. Professional quality of life, mindfulness, self-compassion and personal wellbeing were evaluated. Descriptive statistics were calculated, including percentiles for the interpretation of the Brief Professional Quality of Life Scale, and analysis of variance, to study the goodness of the established cut-off points. Results: Satisfaction with compassion can be considered low with scores of 10 or lower, medium with scores between 11 and 13, and high with scores of 14 or higher. Burnout can be considered low with scores of 6 or lower, medium with scores between 7 and 8, and high with scores of 9 or higher. Compassion fatigue can be considered low with scores of 4 or lower, medium with scores of 5, and high with scores of 6 or higher. The established cut-off point for the scores were related in the expected direction with mindfulness, selfcompassion and personal well-being. Discussion: The cut-off points identified for the Short Professional Quality of Life Scale scores are useful and adequate for the scale use.