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World Health Organization Quality of Life assessment instrument (WHOQOL-100 & WHOQOL-BREF)

	Author(s)
The WHOQOL group

Purpose

Pathology:

Generic

Disease:

All

Objective:

To assess individuals' perceptions on the quality of their life

Population:

Adult

Characteristics

Type of instrument:

Quality of life

Mode of administration:

Interviewer-administered
Self-administered

Number of items:

WHOQOL-100: 100 items; WHOQOL-BREF: 26 items

Existence of database:

Yes

[ Identification form available in the restricted level ]

Time recall:

In the last 2 weeks

Language(s)

Original language:

[ The WHOQOL was originally developed in Australia, Croatia, France, India, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, Panama, Russia, Spain, Thailand, the UK, the USA, Zimbabwe ]

List of existing translations:

(the translations may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process. Please check status of translations with Mapi Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors)

WHOQL-100:

Arabic for Saudi Arabia	English for Canada	Italian	Slovak
Arabic for Egypt	English for the UK	Japanese	Spanish
Bulgarian	English for the USA	Kannada	Spanish for Argentina
Chinese	Estonian	Korean	Spanish for Panama
Chinese for Honk Kong	French	Lithuanian	Swedish
Chinese for Australia	French for Canada	Malay	Tamil
Croatian	German	Norwegian	Thai
Czech	Greek	Polish	Turkish
Danish	Hungarian	Portuguese for Brazil	Urdu
Dutch	Hebrew	Russian	Zambia
English for Australia	Hindi	Shona

WHOQOL-BREF:

Chinese	English	Indonesian	Russian
Czech	Farsi	Polish	Thai

Last update: July 2007
Last update in collaboration with the author: June 2003

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