The Assessment and Measurement of Wellness in the Clinical Medical Setting: A Systematic Review

Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience

Ryan Bart¹  Waguih William Ishak²  Shaina Ganjian³  Marina Abdelmesseh⁴  Karim Yahia Jaffer⁵ 

[1] Dr. Bart is with Western University of Health Sciences and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angeles, California.;Drs. IsHak, Abdelmesseh, Vanle, Dang, and Danovitch and Mses. Ganjian, Abdelmesseh, and Gohar are with the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angeles, California.;Mr. Jaffer is a medical student at Faculty of Medicine Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angeles, California.;Ms. Azar is with Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California.;Ms. Hanna is with California State University Long Beach, in Long Beach, California.

关键词: Assessment;    evaluation;    measurement;    wellness;    wellbeing;    instruments;   

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学科分类：精神健康和精神病学

来源: Matrix Medical Communications, LLC

【 摘 要 】

We conducted a systematic review of the published literature relating to the assessment and measurement of wellness in order to answer the following questions: 1) What is the working definition of wellness? 2) What wellness assessment instruments have been evaluated or applied in medical settings? 3) How valid, reliable, and accessible are these wellness assessment tools? The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines were followed for this systematic review. Studies published from1990 to 2016 on wellness assessment were identified through Medline and PsycINFO using the following keywords: “assessment” OR “evaluation” OR “measurement” AND “wellness” OR “wellbeing.” Two authors independently conducted a focused analysis then reached a consensus on 23 studies that met the specific selection criteria. This review revealed that there is a lack of uniform definition of wellness. The studies utilizing wellness assessment tools demonstrate strongest reliability values for the following instruments: Wellness Evaluation of Lifestyle, Five-factor Wellness Evaluation of Lifestyle, Perceived Wellness Survey, the Optimal Living Profile, and the Body-Mind-Spirit Wellness Behavior and Characteristic Inventory. However, there is insufficient evidence to support the clinical utility of a single particular wellness instrument. Properly defining wellness might help drive the development and validation of more precise assessment and measurement methods. This could reinforce interventions that promote wellness.

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