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The World Health Organization Quality of Life Instruments (WHOQOL)

The 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 ONLY the US English version of the WHOQOL-100 and WHOQOL-BREF.

Click Here to Order WHOQOL US English Version

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Instrument Information:

AuthorsThe WHOQOL group
Purpose:
PathologyGeneric
DiseaseAll
PopulationAdult, 18 and older
Characteristics:
Type of InstrumentQuality of Life
Mode of AdministrationSelf-administered, interviewer-administered
Time recallLast 2 weeks
Number of ItemsWHOQOL-100: 96 items; WHOQOL-BREF: 26 items
Sample of WHOQOL-100Download Sample Page of Instrument
Sample of WHOQOL-BREFDownload Sample Page of Instrument

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

List of Existing Languages:

  • 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.
  • More Instrument Information

    WHOQOL Bibliography

    Click here for information about the WHOQOL-OLD questionnaire

    Questions?

    US English Instrument inquiries can be directed to the Instrument Distribution Coordinator or 1-800-291-2193

    UW HSERV SPHCM
    University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Department of Health Services, Box 359455, Seattle, WA 98195-9455 Seattle Quality of Life Group