| First Name |
Jefferson |
| Last Name |
Jovelino Amaral Dos Santos |
| Email |
Not Available |
| Affiliation |
Universidade Paranaense (Unipar), Toledo, PR, Brazil |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) |
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| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated |
Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale- Brazilian version |
| Mental health condition assessed |
General Mental Health/Wellbeing/Quality of Life |
| Idiom of distress included, if any |
Not Applicable |
| Lifestage of interest |
Adult (General) |
| Age range (age – age) |
— |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated |
Brazil |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool |
Portuguese |
| Clinical or community sample? |
Community |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? |
The final version of the scale was administered among college students. During the translation process, a sample ranging in ages from 20-40 was included. |
| Development procedures |
Culturally adapted |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? |
— |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable |
— |
| Cronbach’s alpha |
0.89 |
| Sensitivity |
— |
| Spec |
— |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) |
— |
| Citations of development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool |
Santos, J. J., Costa, T. A., Guilherme, J. H., Silva, W. C., Abentroth, L. R., Krebs, J. A., & Sotoriva, P. (2015). Adaptation and cross-cultural validation of the Brazilian version of the Warwick-Edinburgh mental well-being scale. Revista Da Associação Médica Brasileira, 61(3), 209-214. doi:10.1590/1806-9282.61.03.209 |
| Notes when administering the tool |
The scale consists of 14 total items. The final score is calculated by adding up the response of each item, ranging from 1 to 5, obtaining a result from 14 to 70 points, where a higher score is indicative of better mental well-being. |
