Process / pipelineHealth-related quality of life

WHOQOL-BREF

The WHOQOL-BREF is the brief version of the World Health Organization's quality of life assessment, developed by the WHO Quality of Life Group and published in 1998. It measures quality of life across physical, psychological, social, and environmental domains in a single 26-item self-report questionnaire. It has become the primary quality of life instrument in global health research and clinical practice.

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  1. The WHOQOL Group. (1998). Development of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment. Psychological Medicine, 28(3), 551–558. DOI: 10.1017/S0033291798006667
  2. Skevington, S. M., Lotfy, M., & O'Connell, K. A. (2004). The World Health Organization's WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment: Psychometric properties and results of the international field trial. Quality of Life Research, 13(2), 299–310. DOI: 10.1023/B:QURE.0000018486.91360.00
  3. The WHOQOL Group. (1996). WHOQOL-BREF: Introduction, administration, scoring and generic version of the assessment. Mental Health Programme, WHO. link

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ScholarGateWHOQOL-BREF (World Health Organization Quality of Life Brief Version). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/health-measurement/whoqol-bref