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WHOQOL-BREF-PCP Results

Domain	Score (0-100)	Reference (community mean)	Band
Total (mean of all 26 items, 0-100)	78.9	–	high
Physical health (0-100)	66.1	73.5	typical
Psychological (0-100)	88.2	70.6	high
Social (0-100)	63.9	71.5	typical
Environment (0-100)	86.3	75.1	high
Overall QoL + health (0-100)	87.9	70.0	high

What your scores mean

No domain scored at or below 50/100.

The WHOQOL-BREF is not a diagnostic instrument. It is a self-report measure of quality of life across four life domains. The bands here (markedly low < 25, low < 50, typical, high ≥ 75) are descriptive cutpoints chosen for readability; they are not clinical thresholds.

How the scoring works

Each item is rated 1-5. Domain scores are the mean of the items in that domain (Q3, Q4, Q26 inverted first), rescaled to the 0-100 range via (mean − 1) × 25. The total is the mean across all 26 items, also rescaled to 0-100.

This implementation uses a single generic 5-point Likert across all items rather than the four different anchor sets used in the official WHOQOL-BREF instrument. The numeric scoring is unaffected, but the per-item phrasing of the response choices is less specific to each item.

Domain interpretation

Physical health, 66.1 / 100: Captures activities of daily living, energy / fatigue, mobility, pain & discomfort, sleep & rest, work capacity, and dependence on medication.
Psychological, 88.2 / 100: Captures positive feelings, thinking / learning / concentration, self-esteem, body image, and negative feelings.
Social relationships, 63.9 / 100: Captures personal relationships, social support, and sexual activity satisfaction.
Environment, 86.3 / 100: Captures financial resources, freedom and safety, health and social-care accessibility, home environment, opportunities for new information and leisure, physical environment quality, and transport.
Overall QoL + health, 87.9 / 100: The two general-facet items (Q1 perceived QoL, Q2 satisfaction with health), averaged and rescaled to 0-100.

Top-scoring items per domain

Within each domain, the items you endorsed most strongly. Reverse-keyed items (Q3, Q4, Q26) are inverted before ranking.

Physical health

18. How satisfied are you with your capacity for work? you answered Very good / Very satisfied / Completely · 5/5 in the positive direction
17. How satisfied are you with your ability to perform your daily living activities? you answered Very good / Very satisfied / Completely · 5/5 in the positive direction
3. To what extent do you feel that physical pain prevents you from doing what you need to do? you answered Poor / Dissatisfied / A little · 4/5 in the positive direction ↻
10. Do you have enough energy for everyday life? you answered Good / Satisfied / Mostly · 4/5 in the positive direction

Psychological

5. How much do you enjoy life? you answered Very good / Very satisfied / Completely · 5/5 in the positive direction
6. To what extent do you feel your life to be meaningful? you answered Very good / Very satisfied / Completely · 5/5 in the positive direction
19. How satisfied are you with yourself? you answered Very good / Very satisfied / Completely · 5/5 in the positive direction
26. How often do you have negative feelings such as blue mood, despair, anxiety, depression? you answered Poor / Dissatisfied / A little · 4/5 in the positive direction ↻

Social

20. How satisfied are you with your personal relationships? you answered Very good / Very satisfied / Completely · 5/5 in the positive direction
22. How satisfied are you with the support you get from your friends? you answered Good / Satisfied / Mostly · 4/5 in the positive direction
21. How satisfied are you with your sex life? you answered Poor / Dissatisfied / A little · 2/5 in the positive direction

Environment

8. How safe do you feel in your daily life? you answered Very good / Very satisfied / Completely · 5/5 in the positive direction
9. How healthy is your physical environment? you answered Very good / Very satisfied / Completely · 5/5 in the positive direction
12. Have you enough money to meet your needs? you answered Very good / Very satisfied / Completely · 5/5 in the positive direction
13. How available to you is the information that you need in your day-to-day life? you answered Very good / Very satisfied / Completely · 5/5 in the positive direction

Overall QoL + health

1. How would you rate your quality of life? you answered Very good / Very satisfied / Completely · 5/5 in the positive direction
2. How satisfied are you with your health? you answered Good / Satisfied / Mostly · 4/5 in the positive direction

All 26 responses

#	Item	1	2	3	4	5
1	How would you rate your quality of life?	1	2	3	4	5
2	How satisfied are you with your health?	1	2	3	4	5
3	To what extent do you feel that physical pain prevents you from doing what you need to do? (reverse-keyed)	1	2	3	4	5
4	How much do you need any medical treatment to function in your daily life? (reverse-keyed)	1	2	3	4	5
5	How much do you enjoy life?	1	2	3	4	5
6	To what extent do you feel your life to be meaningful?	1	2	3	4	5
7	How well are you able to concentrate?	1	2	3	4	5
8	How safe do you feel in your daily life?	1	2	3	4	5
9	How healthy is your physical environment?	1	2	3	4	5
10	Do you have enough energy for everyday life?	1	2	3	4	5
11	Are you able to accept your bodily appearance?	1	2	3	4	5
12	Have you enough money to meet your needs?	1	2	3	4	5
13	How available to you is the information that you need in your day-to-day life?	1	2	3	4	5
14	To what extent do you have the opportunity for leisure activities?	1	2	3	4	5
15	How well are you able to get around?	1	2	3	4	5
16	How satisfied are you with your sleep?	1	2	3	4	5
17	How satisfied are you with your ability to perform your daily living activities?	1	2	3	4	5
18	How satisfied are you with your capacity for work?	1	2	3	4	5
19	How satisfied are you with yourself?	1	2	3	4	5
20	How satisfied are you with your personal relationships?	1	2	3	4	5
21	How satisfied are you with your sex life?	1	2	3	4	5
22	How satisfied are you with the support you get from your friends?	1	2	3	4	5
23	How satisfied are you with the conditions of your living place?	1	2	3	4	5
24	How satisfied are you with your access to health services?	1	2	3	4	5
25	How satisfied are you with your transport?	1	2	3	4	5
26	How often do you have negative feelings such as blue mood, despair, anxiety, depression? (reverse-keyed)	1	2	3	4	5

About the WHOQOL-BREF

The World Health Organization Quality of Life, Brief (WHOQOL-BREF) was developed by the WHOQOL Group as a 26-item subset of the parent WHOQOL-100, suitable for use in large surveys and clinical settings where the full 100-item form is impractical. It measures perceived quality of life across four domains (Physical health, Psychological, Social relationships, Environment), plus two general facets (overall QoL and satisfaction with health).

References: WHOQOL Group 1998, Psychological Medicine 28(3):551-558; Skevington, Lotfy & O'Connell 2004, Quality of Life Research 13(2):299-310. Community-sample reference means used on this page are from Hawthorne, Herrman & Murphy 2006, Social Indicators Research 77(1):37-59.

The official instrument and detailed scoring manual are distributed by the WHO at who.int/tools/whoqol.