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Public Health Surveillance Well-being Scale (PHS-WB)

The Public Health Surveillance Well-Being Scale is a brief, 10-item measure designed to assess mental, physical, and social health related to wellbeing.  Its design is intended to be used in national surveys or in situations in which a longer form is not feasible.

Multi-dimensional Student Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS)

The MSLSS is a 40-item measure designed to provide a holistic assessment of the wellbeing of young people. It has five subscales: family, friends, school, living environment and self. Each segment can be considered separately. It is a validated tool, and has been tested for effectiveness in the USA and middle east.

How Are You? (HAY)

The HAY covers the physical, social and psychological consequences of illness for children and consists of a generic, a chronic illness section and a disease-specific section.

Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index

The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index was developed to establish official statistics on the state of wellbeing in the United States.  Questions center around experiences and emotions the context of the past 24 hours.

 

World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale (WHOQOL-BREF)

The WHOQOL-BREF was developed by the WHOQOL Group with fifteen international field centers, simultaneously, in an attempt to develop a quality of life assessment that would be applicable cross-culturally. The WHOQOL-BREF is an abbreviated version of the WHOQOL-100.

Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS)

The SHS is a 4-item scale of global subjective happiness. Two items ask respondents to characterize themselves using both absolute ratings and ratings relative to peers, whereas the other two items offer brief descriptions of happy and unhappy individuals and ask respondents the extent to which each characterization describes them