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

Instrument Information:


Authors	The WHOQOL group
Purpose:
Pathology	Generic
Disease	All
Population	Adult, 18 and older
Characteristics:
Type of Instrument	Quality of Life
Mode of Administration	Self-administered, interviewer-administered
Time recall	Last 2 weeks
Number of Items	WHOQOL-100: 96 items; WHOQOL-BREF: 26 items
Sample of WHOQOL-100	Download Sample Page of Instrument
Sample of WHOQOL-BREF	Download 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

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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