Protocol Overview

November 21, 2014

This section will be completed when reviewed by an Expert Review Panel.

The General Well Being Schedule (GWB) is an 18-item, self-administered questionnaire that was developed for the U.S. Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HANES I). The GWB includes positive and negative questions across six dimensions: positive well-being, self-control, vitality, depression, anxiety, and general health. Each item has the time frame "during the last month," and the first 14 questions use 6-point response scales representing intensity or frequency. The remaining four questions use 0-10 rating scales defined by adjectives at each end. The polarity of items 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 15, and 16 is reversed for scoring, and items within each subscale are added together. Lower scores reflect distress and higher scores reflect positive well-being.

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The General Well-Being Schedule

Read: This section of the examination contains questions about how you feel and how things have been going with you. For each question, mark (X) beside the answer which best applies to you.

1. How have you been feeling in general? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)

2. Have you been bothered by nervousness or your "nerves"? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)

3. Have you been in firm control of your behavior, thoughts, emotions, or feelings? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)

4. Have you felt so sad, discourages, hopeless, or had so many problems that you wondered if anything was worthwhile? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)

5. Have you been under or felt you were under any strain, stress, or pressure? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)

6. How happy, satisfied, or pleased have you been with your personal life? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)

7. Have you had any reason to wonder if you were losing your mind, or losing control over the way you act, talk, think, feel, or of your memory? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)

8. Have you been anxious, worried, or upset? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)

9. Have you been waking up fresh and rested? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)

10. Have you been bothered by any illness, bodily disorder, pains, or fears about your health? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)

11. Has your daily life been full of things that were interesting to you? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)

12. Have you felt down hearted and blue? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)

13. Have you been feeling emotionally stable and sure of yourself? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)

14. Have you felt tired, worn out, used-up, or exhausted? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)

For each of the four scales below, note that the words at each end of the 0 to 10 scale describe opposite feelings. Circle any number along which seems closest to how you have generally felt? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)

15. How concerned or worried about your HEALTH have you been? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)

16. How RELEAXED or TENSE have you been? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)

17. How much ENERGY, PEP, and VITALITY have you felt? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)

18. How DEPRESSED or CHEERFUL have you been? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)

Scoring:

Items 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 15, and 16 are reverse scored. The scores from all items are added together and 14 are subtracted from the total to give a range of 0-110. There are three proposed cut-points: total scores of 0-60 reflect "severe distress," 61-72 "moderate distress," and 73-110 "positive well-being".

Six sub-scores can be derived.

Export Variables

Variable Name	Variable ID	Variable Description	Version	Mapping
PX630701_Depressed_Or_Cheerful	PX630701180000	How DEPRESSED or CHEERFUL have you been? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)	4	N/A
PX630701_Feeling_General	PX630701010000	How have you been feeling in general? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)	4	N/A
PX630701_Bothered_Nerves	PX630701020000	Have you been bothered by nervousness or your ¿¿¿nerves¿¿¿? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)	4	N/A
PX630701_Control_Behavior_Feelings	PX630701030000	Have you been in firm control of your behavior, thoughts, emotions, or feelings? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)	4	Variable Mapping
PX630701_Felt_Sad_Problems	PX630701040000	Have you felt so sad, discourages, hopeless, or had so many problems that you wondered if anything was worthwhile? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)	4	N/A
PX630701_Stress_Pressure	PX630701050000	Have you been under or felt you were under any strain, stress, or pressure? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)	4	N/A
PX630701_Happy_Personal_Life	PX630701060000	How happy, satisfied, or pleased have you been with your personal life? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)	4	Variable Mapping
PX630701_Losing_Mind	PX630701070000	Have you had any reason to wonder if you were losing your mind, or losing control over the way you act, talk, think, feel, or of your memory? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)	4	N/A
PX630701_Anxious_Worried_Upset	PX630701080000	Have you been anxious, worried, or upset? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)	4	N/A
PX630701_Waking_Up_Fresh	PX630701090000	Have you been waking up fresh and rested? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)	4	N/A
PX630701_Bothered_Illness_HealthFears	PX630701100000	Have you been bothered by any illness, bodily disorder, pains, or fears about your health? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)	4	N/A
PX630701_Daily_Life_Interesting	PX630701110000	Has your daily life been full of things that were interesting to you? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)	4	N/A
PX630701_Felt_Downhearted_Blue	PX630701120000	Have you felt down hearted and blue? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)	4	Variable Mapping
PX630701_Feeling_Emotionally_Stable	PX630701130000	Have you been feeling emotionally stable and sure of yourself? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)	4	N/A
PX630701_Felt_Tired_Exhausted	PX630701140000	Have you felt tired, worn out, used-up, or exhausted? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)	4	Variable Mapping
PX630701_Worried_Health	PX630701150000	For each of the four scales below, note that the words at each end of the 0 to 10 scale describe opposite feelings. Circle any number along which seems closest to how you have generally felt? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)How concerned or worried about your HEALTH have you been? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)	4	N/A
PX630701_Relaxed_Or_Tense	PX630701160000	For each of the four scales below, note that the words at each end of the 0 to 10 scale describe opposite feelings. Circle any number along which seems closest to how you have generally felt? (DURING THE PAST MONTH) How RELEAXED or TENSE have you been? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)	4	N/A
PX630701_Energy_Vitality	PX630701170000	For each of the four scales below, note that the words at each end of the 0 to 10 scale describe opposite feelings. Circle any number along which seems closest to how you have generally felt? (DURING THE PAST MONTH) How much ENERGY, PEP, and VITALITY have you felt? (DURING THE PAST MONTH)	4	Variable Mapping

The General Well-Being Schedule (GWB) is a brief, reliable, valid, and widely used self-administered questionnaire that addresses subjective well-being. Traumatic events, with or without subsequent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), can affect the sense of well-being, and the GWB addresses this important dimension of post-traumatic adjustment.

Fazio, A. F. (1977). A concurrent validational study of the NCHS General Well-Being Schedule. Hyattsville, Maryland: U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, National Center for Health Statistics.

Adult

English

Adults, ages 18 and older

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Standard	Name	ID	Source
Common Data Elements (CDE)	Psychological Well-being Questionnaire Score	4588696	CDE Browser

Dupuy, H. J. (1978). Self-representations of general psychological well-being of American adults. Paper presented at American Public Health Association Meeting, Los Angeles, CA..

Poston, W. S. C. II, Olvera, N. E., Yanez C., et al. (1998). Evacuation of the factor structure and psychometric characteristics of the General Well-Being Schedule (GWB) with Mexican American women. Women Health, 27, 51-64.

Taylor, J. E., Poston, W. S. C. II, Haddock, C. K., et al. (2003). Psychometric characteristics of the General Well-Being Schedule (GWB) with African-American women. Quality of Life Research, 12, 31-39.

Self-administered questionnaire

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Requirement Category	Required
Average time of greater than 15 minutes in an unaffected individual	No
Major equipment	No
Specialized requirements for biospecimen collection	No
Specialized training	No

This section will be completed when reviewed by an Expert Review Panel.