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Quality of Well Being scale (QWB)

	Author(s)
Anderson John Kaplan Robert M

Purpose

Pathology:

Generic

Disease:

All

Objective:

To measure health-related quality of life, to monitor the health of populations over time, or to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of clinical therapies or practices

Population:

Adult

Characteristics

Type of instrument:

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

Mode of administration:

Telephone-administered
Proxy-administered
Interviewer-administered

[ A self-administered version is also available (see QWB-SA) ]

Number of items:

Existence of database:

Time recall:

6 days

Language(s)

Original language:

English for the USA

List of existing translations:

(the translations may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process. Please check status of translations with Mapi Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors)

Chinese	Hmong	Laotian	Vietnamese
French	Japanese	Navajo
German	Khmer	Spanish

Last update: April 2007
Last update in collaboration with the author: March 2007