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World Health Organization Quality of Life Instruments (WHOQOL)

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.

If you are interested in other translations of the WHOQOL instrument, please contact World Health Organization (WHO) field center WHO WHOQOL instrument coordinator.


Authors
The WHOQOL group.
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
WHOQOL:96 items


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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