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
Development and preliminary psychometric properties of a well-being index for medical students
Read MorePsychometric properties of the Medical Student Well-Being Index among medical students in a Malaysian medical school
Read MoreUtility of a brief screening tool to identify physicians in distress
Read MorePsychometric properties of the Medical Student Wellbeing Index at different interval of measurements in a cohort of medical students
Read MoreAn interactive individualized intervention to promote behavioral change to increase personal well-being in US surgeons
Read MoreAbility of the physician well-being index to identify residents in distress
Read MoreAbility of a 9-Item Well-Being Index to Identify Distress and Stratify Quality of Life in US Workers
Read MoreEfficacy of the Well-Being Index to Identify Distress and Well-Being in U.S. Nurses
Read MoreDistress and well-being in dentists: performance of a screening tool for assessment
Read MoreWell-Being Index Inventors
Well-Being Index Co-Developer
Well-Being Index Co-Developer
Our Team
The Well-Being Index team is made up of well-being experts, healthcare consultants, employee wellness thought leaders, technology innovators, and communications specialists, all dedicated to equipping you with the most advanced data, support, and tools needed to Go Beyond Burnout.
