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.