World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale (WHOQOL-BREF)
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| Purpose | 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. |
| Domain(s) | Life Satisfaction Quality of Life Sense of Meaning |
| Target population | Adult |
| Number of items | 26 |
| Administration format | self-report |
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| Alternate forms | WHOQOL-100 |
| Availability in other languages | Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Bahasa, Bangla, Bulgarian, Cebuano Visayan, Chichewa, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch (Belgian), Dutch (Netherlands), English (Australian), English (New Zealand), Estonian, 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, Neplai, Norwegian, Odia, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Shona, Sinhala, Slovak, Somali, Spanish (Argentinian), Spanish (Chilean), Spanish (Mexican), Spanish (Spain), Swedish, Tamil (Indian), Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yoruba |
| Fee for use | |
| Free | |
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| Non-exhaustive list of psychometric studies | |
Anum, A., Adjorlolo, S., Akotia, C. S., & de-Graft Aikins, A. (2021). Validation of the multidimensional WHOQOL-OLD in Ghana: A study among population-based healthy adults in three ethnically different districts. Brain and Behavior, 11(8) doi:10.1002/brb3.2193 Brzoska, P. (2020). Assessment of quality of life in individuals with chronic headache. psychometric properties of the WHOQOL-BREF. BMC Neurology, 20(1) doi:10.1186/s12883-020-01845-7 Duarte, S. B. R., Chaveiro, N., de Freitas, A. R., Barbosa, M. A., Camey, S., Fleck, M. P., . . . Rodríguez-Martín, D. (2021). Validation of the WHOQOL-bref instrument in Brazilian sign language (libras). Quality of Life Research, 30(1), 303-313. doi:10.1007/s11136-020-02611-5 Gholami, A., Araghi, M. T., Shamsabadi, F., Bayat, M., Dabirkhani, F., Moradpour, F., . . . Rajabi, A. (2021). Application of the world health organization quality of life instrument, short form (WHOQOL-BREF) to patients with cataract. Epidemiology and Health, 38 doi:10.4178/epih.e2016005 Jikamo, B., Adefris, M., Azale, T., & Alemu, K. (2021). Cultural adaptation and validation of the Sidamic version of the world health organization quality-of-life-bref scale measuring the quality of life of women with severe preeclampsia in southern Ethiopia, 2020. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 19(1) doi:10.1186/s12955-021-01872-z Kalfoss, M. H., Reidunsdatter, R. J., Klöckner, C. A., & Nilsen, M. (2021). Validation of the WHOQOL-bref: Psychometric properties and normative data for the Norwegian general population. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 19(1) doi:10.1186/s12955-020-01656-x |
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