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Validation of Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) in Pakistani healthcare professionals

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1 CMH Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry, Lahore, Pakistan
2 Statistics and Epidemiology Unit, Division of Health Sciences, University of Warwick Medical School, Coventry, United Kingdom
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.1084v1
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Subject Areas
Epidemiology, Global Health, Psychiatry and Psychology, Public Health
Keywords
burnout, WEMWBS, Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale, mental fatigue, Health personnel, Mental health
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© 2015 Waqas et al.
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Waqas A, Ahmad W, Taggart F, Muhammad Z, Bukhari MHH, Sami SA, Batool SM, Najeeb F, Hanif A, Rizvi ZA, Ejaz S. 2015. Validation of Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) in Pakistani healthcare professionals. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e1084v1

Abstract

Background: This study was carried out to evaluate the psychometric properties of Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale in Pakistani healthcare professionals. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was carried out from June, 2013 to December, 2014 among 1271 Pakistani health personnel (HCPs) belonging to seven different cities of Punjab province, Pakistan, to study the construct and reliability of Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale in Pakistani population. All data were analyzed in SPSS v.21. Results: Our analysis demonstrated a unidimensional construct, a high internal consistency (0.89), good convergent validity and easy readability of WEMWBS among Pakistani HCPs. Conclusion: WEMWBS is both reliable and valid for use in Pakistani population.

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Author Contributions

Ahmed Waqas conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Waqas Ahmad conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Frances Taggart conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Zerwah Muhammad performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Muhammad Hamza HB Bukhari performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Shahzad Ahmed Sami performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Sayyeda Mehak Batool performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Fiza Najeeb performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Ayesha Hanif performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Zehra Ali Rizvi performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Sumbul Ejaz performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

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Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethical Review committee of CMH Lahore Medical College, Lahore Cantt, Pakistan.

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The data will be provided as supplementary file on PeerJ.

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The authors declare that this study was not funded by any agency.

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