The WHO-5 Well-Being Index
Psychology: Mental Health1 sample item
About this scale
The World Health Organization is part of the United Nations (for historical overview, read this ). This large organization plays an important role in dealing with diseases around the world. As part of their work, they developed various well-being indices, and the WHO-5 is a short version of previously developed longer well-being indices. The WHO-5 questionnaire has five simple non-intrusive questions. The final of the WHO-5 ranges between 0 and 100. 0 mean
Sample item(s)
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Notes
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Source & citation
Topp, C.W., Østergaard, S.D., Søndergaard, S., & Bech, P. (2015). The WHO-5 Well-Being Index: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 84 , 167-176. Open access link | Logtenberg, S. J., Kleefstra, N., Houweling, S. T., Groenier, K. H., Gans, R. O., & Bilo, H. J. (2010). Health-related quality of life, treatment satisfaction, and costs associated with intraperitoneal versus subcutaneous insulin administration in type 1 diabetes: a randomized controlled trial. Diabetes care, 33(6) , 1169–1172. Open access link
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