The World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL)

Overview

The WHOQOL is a quality of life assessment developed by the WHOQOL Group with fifteen international field centres, simultaneously, in an attempt to develop a quality of life assessment that would be applicable cross-culturally.

Adaptations have been developed for people with HIV (WHOQOL-HIV) and an additional 32 item instrument has been developed to assess aspects of Spirituality, Religiousness and Personal Beliefs (WHOQOL-SRPB).

The project to develop and disseminate the WHOQOL is not an ongoing WHO project. WHO is no longer in a position to provide technical support.

To obtain permission to use WHOQOL materials kindly complete this online form.

If you wish to use the US English version of the WHOQOL-100 and WHOQOL-BREF, please liaise directly with the US office. Instructions are available at http://depts.washington.edu/seaqol/WHOQOL-BRE