New method of measuring subjective well-being: prospective validation study of the ‘Daily Experience Sampling Questionnaire’ (DESQ) in patients with psoriasis and healthy subjects in Germany

• Published in: BMJ open Vol. 10; no. 12; p. e039227
• Main Authors: Blome, Christine, Kirsten, Natalia, Nergiz, Ibrahim, Schiffner, Ulrich, Otten, Marina, Augustin, Matthias
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England British Medical Journal Publishing Group 01.12.2020; BMJ Publishing Group LTD; BMJ Publishing Group
• Series: Original research
• Subjects: Adult; Bias; Chronic illnesses; Ecological Momentary Assessment; Emotions; Female; Germany; health economics; Healthy Volunteers; Humans; Life satisfaction; Male; Patients; Prospective Studies; Psoriasis; Quality of life; Questionnaires; Recall; Reproducibility of Results; Research Methods; Retrospective Studies; statistics & research methods; Surveys and Questionnaires; Validation studies; Validity; Well being; Germany; statistics & research methods; psoriasis; health economics

ObjectivesTo validate the newly developed Daily Experience Sampling Questionnaire (DESQ) that measures affective subjective well-being (SWB). The DESQ is an end-of-day diary in which respondents retrospectively rate their SWB at six different, randomly determined moments; it is completed over 1 week...