Psychometric properties of the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale: a systematic review
Abstract
Patient reported outcomes are increasingly being assessed in many studies due to the demand for reliable and valid measures that enable assessment of such outcomes and comparison of scores between different populations. The Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) and its shorter version (SWEMWBS) are widely used questionnaires that assess subjective mental well-being at the population level. The scales have been translated into many languages and are being used in a variety of settings to assess well-being. This systematic review aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the available versions of the scale. The protocol was registered in the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO registration number CRD42020149849) reports the psychometric properties reported by validation studies published until 31 December 2023. A search for ‘WEMWBS’ and/or ‘Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale’, used in combination with ‘validation’, was used to search PubMed, Semantic Scholar, OpenGrey, and the first 10 pages of Google Scholar. One author screened all titles after duplicates and unrelated items were removed. The abstracts of the remaining studies (n = 142) were screened and suitable articles were selected for data extraction. Methodological quality was independently assessed by two investigators against the CONSensus-based Standards for the Selection of Health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) risk of bias assessment checklist. The…
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