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Dr Chen Shen

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Research Associate in Epidemiology
 
 
 
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School of Public HealthWhite City Campus

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@article{Sun:2019:10.1007/s11136-019-02218-5,
author = {Sun, Y and Luk, TT and Wang, MP and Shen, C and Ho, SY and Viswanath, K and Chan, SSC and Lam, TH},
doi = {10.1007/s11136-019-02218-5},
journal = {Quality of Life Research},
pages = {2813--2820},
title = {The reliability and validity of the Chinese Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale in the general population of Hong Kong},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11136-019-02218-5},
volume = {28},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - PURPOSE: To evaluate the reliability and validity of the 7-item Chinese Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS) in Hong Kong Chinese. METHODS: Under "A Jockey Club Initiative for a Harmonious Society" project, a random telephone survey was conducted in 2017 on 1331 Hong Kong Chinese residents aged ≥ 18. A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted to test the factorial validity. The Spearman correlations of the SWEMWBS with other scales including the 12-item short form health survey (SF-12), family well-being, self-rated health, the global happiness item (GHI), subjective happiness scale (SHS), and patient health questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4), were used to evaluate the convergent and divergent validity. Known-group validity was also assessed. We calculated congeneric reliability based on standardized factor loadings and error variances. Two-week test-retest reliability was assessed in 100 randomly selected respondents using intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). RESULTS: Among the weighted sample, 55.9% were female and 72.9% were 25 to 64 years old. The CFA indicated good validity of the SWEMWBS. The SWEMWBS had moderate correlations with SHS, SF-12 mental component, PHQ-4 and GHI, but a weak correlation with SF-12 physical component. Older respondents, those with higher education level, married, working, with higher household income reported higher level of well-being. The congeneric reliability of the SWEMWBS was 0.85. Moderate to good test-retest reliability was observed (ICC 0.70, 95% CI 0.55 to 0.80). CONCLUSION: The Chinese SWEMWBS showed good validity and reliability for measuring well-being in the general population of Hong Kong.
AU  - Sun,Y
AU  - Luk,TT
AU  - Wang,MP
AU  - Shen,C
AU  - Ho,SY
AU  - Viswanath,K
AU  - Chan,SSC
AU  - Lam,TH
DO  - 10.1007/s11136-019-02218-5
EP  - 2820
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 1573-2649
SP  - 2813
TI  - The reliability and validity of the Chinese Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale in the general population of Hong Kong
T2  - Quality of Life Research
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11136-019-02218-5
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31144205
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/72392
VL  - 28
ER  -
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