Author(s)
Purpose
- Pathology:
Generic
- Disease:
All
- Objective:
To assess individuals' perceptions on the quality of their life
- Population for intended use:
Adult
Characteristics
- Type of instrument:
Health-Related Quality of Life - HRQL (incl. health status)
- Administration mode:
Interviewer-administered
Self-administered
- Number of items:
WHOQOL-100: 100 items; WHOQOL-BREF: 26 items
- Recall/Observation period:
In the last 2 weeks
Language(s)
- Original language:
[ The WHOQOL was originally developed in Australia, Croatia, France, India, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, Panama, Russia, Spain, Thailand, the UK, the USA, Zimbabwe ]
- 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.
WHOQOL-100
| Arabic for Egypt | English for Canada | Italian for Italy | Slovak |
| Arabic for Saudi Arabia | English for the UK | Japanese for Japan | Spanish for Argentina |
| Bulgarian | English for the USA | Kannada | Spanish for Panama |
| Chinese | Estonian | Korean | Spanish for Spain |
| Chinese for Australia | French for Canada | Lithuanian | Swedish for Sweden |
| Chinese for Hong Kong | French for France | Malay | Tamil |
| Croatian | German for Germany | Norwegian for Norway | Thai |
| Czech | Greek | Polish for Poland | Turkish for Turkey |
| Danish for Denmark | Hebrew | Portuguese for Brazil | Urdu |
| Dutch for the Netherlands | Hindi for India | Russian for Russia | Zambia |
| English for Australia | Hungarian | Shona |
WHOQOL-BREF
| Chinese |
| Czech |
| English |
| Farsi |
| Indonesian |
| Polish for Poland |
| Russian for Russia |
| Thai |
Bibliographic reference(s) of the original questionnaire
Development of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment. The WHOQOL Group. Psychol Med. 1998 May;28(3):551-8 (PubMed abstract)
The World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment (WHOQOL): development and general psychometric properties. Soc Sci Med. 1998 Jun;46(12):1569-85 (PubMed abstract)
Szabo S (on behalf of the WHOQOL group). The World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) assessment instrument. In: Bert Spilker (Ed). Quality of Life and Pharmacoeconomics in Clinical Trials (2nd edition). Philadelphia, New York, Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1996
The World Health Organization Quality of Life assessment (WHOQOL): position paper from the World Health Organization. Soc Sci Med. 1995 Nov;41(10):1403-9 (PubMed abstract)
The WHOQOL Group. The Development of the WHO Quality of Life Assessment Instrument (The WHOQOL) in Orley J and Kuyken W (eds). Quality of Life Assessment: International Perspectives. Berlin. Springer-Verlag. 1994; 1-57
Study protocol for the World Health Organization project to develop a Quality of Life assessment instrument (WHOQOL). Qual Life Res. 1993 Apr;2(2):153-9 (PubMed abstract)
Last update: March 2012
Last update in collaboration with the author: June 2003
