Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale- Brazil
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Jefferson |
| Last Name | Jovelino Amaral Dos Santos |
| Not Available | |
| Affiliation | Universidade Paranaense (Unipar), Toledo, PR, Brazil |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
| 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. |