Cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS) among Iranian older adults

OBJECTIVES: Early diagnosis of mental well-being ameliorations is an important first step toprevent their progress and the 7-item Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale(SWEMWBS) was developed to measure more objective aspects of mental functioning. This study was planned to assess cultural and psychometric appositeness of the Persian version ofSWEMWBS to be utilized on the older people. METHOD: The cross-sectional study was carried out on 500 registered older adults aged 60 andover at selected healthcare centers (HCCs) in Tabriz city. A standard forward/backward Persiantranslated version of the SWEMWBS went through Exploratory and Confirmatory FactorAnalyses (EFA, CFA) for its construct validity appraisal. Reliability and stability of the versionwas assessed by estimation of Cronbach's alpha and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC). RESULTS: value = 0.000, CMIN/DF = 4.497, RMSEA = 0.084, PNFI = 0.329, PCFI = 0.330, TLI = 0.972, IFI = 0/991, CFI = 0.991) and its robust reliability and stability(Cronbach's α = 0.93, ICC = 0.98). CONCLUSION: This study results added to the growing evidence about suitability of the SWEMWBS for measuring positive mental wellbeing.