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:
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Time to complete |
No information found |
Cost/license |
http://depts.washington.edu/seaqol/instruments#Info for cost and license of the WHOQOL-BREF. |
Whoqol Group. (1998). Development of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment. Psychological Medicine, 28(3), 551–558. Follow this link for the article.