Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): Validated for teenage school students in England and Scotland. A mixed methods assessment

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Clarke, Aileen ^a   Friede, Tim ^b   Putz, Rebecca ^a   Ashdown, Jacquie ^c   Martin, Steven ^a   Blake, Amy ^d   Adi, Yaser ^e   Parkinson, Jane ^f   Flynn, Pamela ^g   Platt, Stephen ^h   Stewart Brown, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c NHS Birmingham East and North   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Warwick and Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

^e KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^f NHS HEALTH SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCOTLAND;

EID: 79960837481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-487     Document Type: Article

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