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WHO-5 Well-Being Index

Five questions from the World Health Organization about how the last two weeks have been. Takes a minute.

5 items · About 1 min

How to answerThe five statements below are about how you have been feeling over the last two weeks. For each, choose the option closest to how you have been.

  1. I have felt cheerful and in good spirits
  2. I have felt calm and relaxed
  3. I have felt active and vigorous
  4. I woke up feeling fresh and rested
  5. My daily life has been filled with things that interest me
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About this scale

The WHO-5 is one of the most widely used well-being questionnaires. Five items give a quick read on someone's overall state and an early flag for depression risk.

SourceWorld Health Organization (1998). Wellbeing Measures in Primary Health Care: The DepCare Project. Topp, C. W., et al. (2015). The WHO-5 Well-Being Index: A systematic review. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 84(3), 167–176. Free to use.