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WHO (Five) Well-Being Index (WHO-5)

 

Author(s)

Bech Per

 

Purpose

  • Pathology:

Generic

  • Disease:

All

  • Objective:

To measure positive psychological well-being

  • Population for intended use:

Adult

 
 

Characteristics

  • Type of instrument:

Health-Related Quality of Life - HRQL (incl. health status)

  • Administration mode:

Self-administered

  • Number of items:

5

  • Recall/Observation period:

Over the last two weeks

 
 

Language(s)

  • Original language:

Danish for Denmark

  • List of existing translations:

The translations listed below may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process and may require further work to be suitable for use in a study.
This list of translations is subject to constant changes, therefore please check the status of translations with MAPI Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors.

WHO-5

Albanian Finnish for Finland Italian for Italy Slovenian
Arabic French for France Japanese for Japan Spanish for Spain
Bulgarian German for Germany Lithuanian Swedish for Sweden
Czech Greek Norwegian for Norway Turkish for Turkey
Dutch for the Netherlands Hebrew Polish for Poland
English Hungarian Romanian
Farsi Icelandic Russian for Russia
 

Bibliographic reference(s) of the original questionnaire

Bech P. Measuring the dimension of Psychological General Well-Being by the WHO-5 119. Quality of Life Newsletter. 2004;32:15-16


Bech P, Olsen RL, Kjoller M, Rasmussen NK. Measuring well-being rather than the absence of distress symptoms: a comparison of the SF-36 Mental Health subscale and the WHO-Five Well-Being Scale. Int J Meth Psychiatr Res 2003; 85-91


Henkel V, Mergl R, Kohnen R, Maier W, Möller H-J, Hegerl U. Identifying depression in primary care: a comparison of different methods in a prospective cohort study. BMJ 2003; 326: 200-201 (Full text article)


Bech P. Male depression: stress and aggression as pathways to major depression. In: Dawson A and Tylee A (eds.) Depression: Social and economic timebomb. London: BMJ Books 2001, pp 63-66


World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe and the International Diabetes Federation, Europe. Diabetes mellitus in Europe: a problem at all ages and in all countries. A model for prevention and self care. Meeting. Giorn Ital Diabetol 1990; 10 (suppl)

Last update: April 2012

Last update in collaboration with the author: March 2007