WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment (WHO-QOL-BREF)

Full name of scale

WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment

Languages

English and French +

Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Bahasa-Malay, Bangla, Bulgarian, Cebuano-Visyan, Chichewa, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch-Belgian, Dutch-Netherlands, English-Australian, English-New Zealand, Estonian, Persian (Farsi), Filipino, Finnish, French-Belgian, French-France, German, Gichuka, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Ilonggo, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Kikuyu, Kiswahili, Korean, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luganda, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Odia, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Portuguese-Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Serb (Croat-Bosnian), Shona, Sinhala, Slovak, Somali, Spanish-Argentinian, Spanish-Chilean, Spanish-Colombian, Spanish-Mexican, Spanish-Spain, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yoruba,

French version reference

French_France_WHOQOL-BREF. (n.d.). Retrieved October 6, 2022, from https://www.who.int/nepal/activities/supporting-elimination-of-kala-azar-as-a-public-health-problem/docs/default-source/publishing-policies/whoqol-bref/french-france-whoqol-bref

Rater

Patient-rated

Training

No information found

There is, however, a user manual that can be accessed from WHO website.

Utility

Clinical and research settings

This is a measure designed to assess the quality of life through focusing on domains of physical and psychological health, social relationships. and environment.

It can be utilized in medical practice,

research, audit, and policy making. It is also a useful measure for evaluating the effectiveness of various

treatments.

Several versions exist:

• WHOQOL-100
• WHOQOL-BREF
• WHOQOL-HIV for people with HIV
• WHOQOL-SRPB: assess aspects of Spirituality, Religiousness and Personal Beliefs

Time to complete

No information found

Cost/license