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Warwick–Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS) and Short WEMWBS (SWEMWBS)
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History and guide
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- WEMWBS: Tennant et al. (2007), https://www.pubmed.gov/18042300.

- SWEMWBS: Stewart-Brown et al. (2009), https://www.pubmed.gov/19228398.

Source
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Stewart-Brown et al. (2009), as below.

Intellectual property rights
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Published as open data in multiple open-access articles, under the Creative
Commons Attribution License.

Tennant et al. (2007), *Health and Quality of Life Outcomes* 5: 63,
doi:10.1186/1477-7525-5-63, http://www.hqlo.com/content/5/1/63.

- “© 2007 Tennant et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.”

- “This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative
  Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0),
  which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
  provided the original work is properly cited.”

- Scale in Figure 1.

- Scale also in supplementary data, annotated “© NHS Health Scotland,
  University of Warwick and University of Edinburgh, 2006, all rights reserved”
  and additionally marked “Open Data”:

  - “By 'open data' BioMed Central means that these data are freely available
    on the public internet permitting any user to download, copy, analyse,
    re-process, pass them to software or use them for any other purpose without
    financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from
    gaining access to the internet itself. BioMed Central encourages the use of
    fully open formats wherever possible.”
    (http://www.hqlo.com/about/access/#opendata)

Stewart-Brown et al. (2009), *Health and Quality of Life Outcomes* 7: 15,
doi:10.1186/1477-7525-7-15, http://www.hqlo.com/content/7/1/15.

- “© 2009 Stewart-Brown et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.”

- “This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative
  Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0),
  which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
  provided the original work is properly cited.”

- WEMWBS and SWEWMBS scales annotated “© NHS Health Scotland, University of
  Warwick and University of Edinburgh, 2006, all rights reserved” (WEMWBS) or
  “… 2008 …” (SWEMWBS) and both additionally marked “Open Data”:

  - “By 'open data' BioMed Central means that these data are freely available
    on the public internet permitting any user to download, copy, analyse,
    re-process, pass them to software or use them for any other purpose without
    financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from
    gaining access to the internet itself. BioMed Central encourages the use of
    fully open formats wherever possible.”
    (http://www.hqlo.com/about/access/#opendata)
