Wellness Course in Chicago
Outline: Wellness, Well-Being and Quality of Life: Measuring Subjective Health
Chicago, Illinois, May 29th, 2015
Dr. Herb Meiselman (herb@herbmeiselman.com)
Course Fee US$850
To register, please email herb@herbmeiselman.com
Today, many product companies and many researchers want to link their product to improved health and wellness. By wellness, I refer to the subjective part of health (how you feel). This new course reviews the complex and gigantic field of wellness, well-being and quality of life. The focus is how to measure wellness, so that you can gauge whether your product or your research is having an impact on how people feel about their wellness.
The course will review a variety of methods for measuring wellness, well-being and quality of life. The course will include a review of the basic concepts and language of wellness, so that you can communicate with other professionals in this field. As with the emotion field, wellness research exists across a large number of different disciplines, each speaking a different jargon, and each working in a different scenario (mental, physical, disease states, smoking and drug cessation, exercise and diet, etc). The unique focus of this course is to leave the clinical/medical framework of wellness, and explore the commercial application of wellness measurement.
Please examine this course outline:
1. Defining and Distinguishing Wellness
-Wellness, Quality of Life, Well-Being
-The problem of definitions
-The British Columbia Atlas of Wellness
-Dimensions of wellness
-Criticisms of the wellness definitions
2. Defining and Distinguishing Quality of Life (QOL)
-Defining Quality of Life
-WHOQOL 100; WHOQOL BREF-The one item Arizona Integrative Outcomes Scale (AIOS)
-Exercise: Administer The Arizona Integrative Outcomes Scale (AIOS)
-Satisfaction with Life Scale
–Exercise: Administer Satisfaction with Life Scale
-EUROHIS QOL
-Satisfaction with food related life (SWFL)
-A review of 4000+ QOL measures!
3. Measuring Wellness
–Defining Wellness
-AIOS and PANAS – 1 item and 10/20 items
-WEL-Wellness Evaluation of Lifestyle – 131 items
-Wellness Inventory/Wellness Index – 120 items
-Testwell – 50/100 items
-Development of WellSenseR – 45 items – for product testing
–Exercise: Administer WellSenseR
4. Measuring Subjective Well Being (SWB)
-Well being: Spelling, Definition, History
-Measuring Subjective Well Being (SWB)
-Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS)
-WHO-5
-Flourishing
-Text and Social Media Analysis
-Measuring Happiness
5. Compliance with Wellness products
-Compliance and adherence
-Measuring compliance
-Psychological predictors/correlates of compliance
–Conscientiousness
–Self-efficacy
–Resilience
Exercise: General Self-Efficacy Scale
6. Cross Cultural Studies of Wellness
–WHO cross cultural testing
-Translation
-Global self-efficacy
-Well being in 5 countries
-European happiness
-Alcohol consumption globally
7. References
