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The measurement of health outcomes is central to the development of health services. Many acute and chronic illnesses and health interventions have implications for mental health. This study tests the validity of a 22 item measure of psychological well-being, the adapted general well-being index (AGWBI). A postal health survey, including the AGWBI, was sent to a 10% random sample of patients aged 16 or over drawn from the computerized list of one general practice. Two hundred and sixty-six respondents returned questionnaires (a response rate of 76%). The AGWBI was fully completed by 94% (249) of the respondents who returned their questionnaires. Only respondents who fully completed the AGWBI are included in the analysis. The AGWBI significantly discriminated people with a limiting long term illness, those reporting suffering from anxiety, depression or bad nerves, users of general practitioner services over the previous two weeks and respondents reporting taking anti-depressants, tranquillizers or sleeping tablets. It was also able to discriminate respondents with psychosocial difficulties in a small sub-sample who reported that they were in excellent health and did not have a limiting long term health problem or psychological illness. The results are broadly supportive of the validity of the AGWBI and suggest it may be appropriate for use in the evaluation of several developing areas of primary care. Further research is needed to test concurrent validity, responsiveness and to establish population norms.
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PMID:Measuring psychological well-being. The adapted General Well-Being Index in a primary care setting: a test of validity. 882 65

I examine the relationship between unhappiness and age using data from eight well-being data files on nearly 14 million respondents across forty European countries and the United States and 168 countries from the Gallup World Poll. I use twenty different individual characterizations of unhappiness including many not good mental health days; anxiety; worry; loneliness; sadness; stress; pain; strain, depression and bad nerves; phobias and panic; being downhearted; having restless sleep; losing confidence in oneself; not being able to overcome difficulties; being under strain; being unhappy; feeling a failure; feeling left out; feeling tense; and thinking of yourself as a worthless person. I also analyze responses to a further general attitudinal measure regarding whether the situation in the respondent's country is getting worse. Responses to all these unhappiness questions show a, ceteris paribus, hill shape in age, with controls and many also do so with limited controls for time and country. Unhappiness is hill-shaped in age and the average age where the maximum occurs is 49 with or without controls. There is an unhappiness curve.
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PMID:Unhappiness and age. 3235 Dec 57