World Health Organization Quality of Life Instruments (WHOQOL-100)
WHOQOL is a generic Quality of Life Scale developed through the World Health Organization. The SeaQoL Group is the location of the US WHOQOL Center and distributes the US English version of the WHOQOL-100.
Our office handles the US English version only. If you are interested in translations of the WHOQOL-100 instrument, please contact the World Health Organization (WHO) field center WHOQOL instrument coordinator.
- Costs and Order Processing Information
- To obtain the WHOQOL-100 US English version instrument, user manual and scoring program, please complete the WHOQOL US English Order Form
Authors
The WHOQOL group
Copyright
University of Washington
Purpose
Research & Intervention
Pathology
Generic
Disease/Condition
All
Population
Adult, 18 and older
Type of Instrument
Quality of Life
Mode of Administration
Self-administered, interviewer-administered
Time recall
Last 2 weeks
Number of Items
100 items
Validation Reference(s):
Bonomi AE, Patrick DL, Bushnell DM, Martin M. (2000). Validation of the United States' version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) instrument. J Clin Epidemiol, 53(1), 1-12.List of Existing Translations:
- Arabic (Egypt), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Bulgarian, Chinese-Mandarin (China), Chinese-Mandarin (Hong Kong), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), English (Malaysia), English (US), English (UK), Estonian, French, French (Canada), German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Shona, Slovak, Spanish, Spanish (Argentina), Spanish (Panama), Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Zambian.
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