Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS)

Full name of scale

Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale

Languages

English and French+

Arabic, Bangla, British sign language, Chilean Spanish, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhala, Spanish, Slovenian, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Welsh

French version reference

Trousselard, M., Steiler, D., Dutheil, F., Claverie, D., Canini, F., Fenouillet, F., Naughton, G., Stewart-Brown, S., & Franck, N. (2016). Validation of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS) in French psychiatric and general populations. Psychiatry Research, 245, 282–290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2016.08.050

Rater

Patient-rated

Utility

Research and clinical settings

 

This measure designed to assess mental wellbeing among general population, as well as evaluating programmes and policies.

 

Two versions exist: 7- and 14-item measures

Time to complete

No information found

Cost/license

Free of charge for non-commercial use, but registration is required. It can be done through the website.

Tennant, R., Hiller, L., Fishwick, R., Platt, S., Joseph, S., Weich, S., … Stewart-Brown, S. (2007). The Warwick-Edinburgh mental well-being scale (WEMWBS): Development and UK validation. Health Quality of Life Outcomes, 5(1), 63. Follow this link for the article.

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