Wellbeing Assessment
This tool uses WEMWBS (The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale) to measure mental wellbeing. WEMWBS was created by mental wellbeing experts, and is often used by scientists and psychologists. It is a set of 14 questions and can be used to identify wellbeing, target interventions and if taken over a period can be used to identify impact of interventions. This can be used to determine where a service is meeting its objective outcomes in achieving mental wellbeing.
This tool will be a selection of questions it is a 14 item scale with 5 response categories, summed to provide a single score ranging from 14-70. The items are all worded positively and cover both feeling and functioning aspects of mental wellbeing.
QUESTIONS:
- I’ve been feeling optimistic about the future
- I've been feeling useful
- I've been feeling relaxed
- I've been feeling interested in other people
- I've had energy to spare
- I've been dealing with problems well
- I've been thinking clearly
- I've been feeling good about myself
- I've been feeling close to other people
- I've been feeling confident
- I’ve been able to make up my own mind about things
- I've been feeling loved
- I’ve been interested in new things
- I’ve been feeling cheerful
EACH QUESTION ABOVE HAS THE FOLLOWING MULTIPLE CHOICE ANSWERS (ONLY ONE SELECTABLE):
- None of the time
- Rarely
- Some of the time
- Often
- All of the time
How to Use
Go through the questions in the tool. At the end, the tool will calculate a score and make recommendations on what the score means and ways to improve welling, based on the five ways of wellbeing:
Five ways to mental wellbeing
- Get active
- Connect with others
- Keep learning
- Be aware of yourself and the world
- Give to others