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Quality of Well-Being scale Self-Administered (QWB-SA)

[ The QWB-SA is used even when the survey is administered by interviewer ]

	Author(s)
Ganiats Theodore G Kaplan Robert M Sieber William J

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 of practices using a preference-weighted self-administered measure

Population:

Adult

Characteristics

Type of instrument:

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

Mode of administration:

Self-administered
Interviewer-administered

[ Can also be proxy-administered ]

Number of items:

Existence of database:

Yes

[ Identification form available in the restricted level ]

Time recall:

Over the last 3 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)

Dutch	German	Spanish	Swedish
French for Canada	Italian

Last update: March 2009
Last update in collaboration with the author: March 2009