Evaluating the responsiveness of the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS): Group and individual level analysis

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Maheswaran, Hendramoorthy ^a   Weich, Scott ^a   Powell, John ^b   Stewart Brown, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Responsiveness; Sensitivity to change; Well being; WEMBWBS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; WARWICK EDINBURGH MENTAL WELL BEING SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871592784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-10-156     Document Type: Article

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