Focus Area: Wellbeing
Overview: The WHO-5 is a brief measure of individual wellbeing
Total number of items: Five
Standardized cadence: Two weeks
Estimated completion time: One to three minutes
Supported subscales: None
Age range: 9+
Scoring and interpretation:
Reliability/Validity: "The WHO-5 has been found to have adequate validity in screening for depression and in measuring outcomes in clinical trials. Item response theory analyses in studies of younger persons and elderly persons indicate that the measure has good construct validity as a unidimensional scale measuring well-being in these populations (Winther Topp et al., 2015)."
Original research