Measuring mental well-being in Sri Lanka: validation of the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) in a Sinhala speaking community

Abstract Background Well-being is an important aspect of people’s lives and can be considered as an index of social progress. The Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being scale (WEMWBS) was developed to capture subjective mental well-being. It is a widely tested measure of mental well-being at the popula...

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Main Authors: B. P. R. Perera, A. Caldera, P. Godamunne, S. Stewart-Brown, A. R. Wickremasinghe, R. Jayasuriya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-08-01
Series:BMC Psychiatry
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04211-8