The Warwick-Dinburgh mental well-being scale (WEMWBS): Development and UK validation

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Tennant, Ruth ^a   Hiller, Louise ^a   Fishwick, Ruth ^a   Platt, Stephen ^b   Joseph, Stephen ^c   Weich, Scott ^a   Parkinson, Jane ^d   Secker, Jenny ^e   Stewart Brown, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d NHS HEALTH SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^e ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTENT VALIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; UNITED KINGDOM; WARWICK EDINBURGH MENTAL WELL BEING SCALE; WELLBEING; ADULT; AGED; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STUDENT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDENTS; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 38949168815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-5-63     Document Type: Article

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