About the Well-Being Index
Mission
Our mission is to equip individuals and organizations worldwide with the most advanced data, support, and tools needed to foster a workplace culture of wellness.
Invented by Mayo Clinic
Over ten years ago, Mayo Clinic leadership set out to better support the well-being of their providers. The first step in this process was getting an accurate measurement of staff wellness. The commonly-used surveys, however, were too long, too cumbersome, and didn’t provide the functionality needed to adequately measure and support their clinicians’ well-being.
The few existing assessments were one-time surveys, contained dozens or even hundreds of questions, lacked anonymity, didn’t provide participant resources, lacked comprehensive reporting for administrators, or focused only on burnout (just one dimension of distress and well-being). To solve these problems, Mayo Clinic researchers invented and validated the Well-Being Index to:
- Anonymously measure well-being in less than 1-minute
- Predict risk of distress over 6 dimensions
- Provide immediate resources to participants
- Deliver comprehensive reporting to wellness leaders
- Track individual and organizational progress over time
Since then, the Well-Being Index has been launched at over 800 organizations around the world and is used every day to help leaders support their staff and Go Beyond Burnout.
Validation
After years of development, a rigorous multi-step validation process, and multiple phases of peer review, the Well-Being Index was born. Explore the original research studies for each of the eight Well-Being Index versions and see how wellness experts at Mayo Clinic developed and validated the tool.
Well-Being Index Validation Study Timeline
- January 2010
Development and preliminary psychometric properties of a well-being index for medical students
Read More - February 2013
Psychometric properties of the Medical Student Well-Being Index among medical students in a Malaysian medical school
Read More - March 2013
Utility of a brief screening tool to identify physicians in distress
Read More - December 2013
Psychometric properties of the Medical Student Wellbeing Index at different interval of measurements in a cohort of medical students
Read More - January 2014
An interactive individualized intervention to promote behavioral change to increase personal well-being in US surgeons
Read More - March 2014
Ability of the physician well-being index to identify residents in distress
Read More - August 2016
Ability of a 9-Item Well-Being Index to Identify Distress and Stratify Quality of Life in US Workers
Read More - November 2018
Efficacy of the Well-Being Index to Identify Distress and Well-Being in U.S. Nurses
Read More - January 2024
Distress and well-being in dentists: performance of a screening tool for assessment
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"The validity and widespread use of the product, the excellent customer support, the leadership strategy, and ongoing intelligence are exceptional. I see the Well-Being Index as a true business partner in our commitment to well-being among our healthcare professionals."
