It is a software based diagnostic tool designed to generate overall emotional wellness index and subsequent stress emanating from five areas of life (nature, circumstances, clinical symptoms, domestic life and professional life) beside screening for major mental disorders.

• It is a rating scale in which the individual responds to 55 questions.
• A psychometrically reliable and valid tool developed after 10 years of research.
• The result on Emotional Wellness Index is depicted on a colour band (green, blue, yellow orange and red) referred as the emotional wellness index.
• If it’s green then an individual is likely to be emotionally well, but if the result obtained is blue, yellow, orange or red, it indicates emotional disturbance of increasing severity.
• The colour band depicts an overall status of emotional health of an individual as per degree of stress in one’s life much before individual becomes symptomatic requiring professional help
• Individual can work on himself or herself either with or without professional help to walk from highest emotionally stressed zone of red to minimal or no stress zone of green colour.

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1. From where has this tool been validated and approved?

• A psychometrically reliable and valid tool developed after 10 years of research. The stress-o-meter was individually tested at the University of Houston.
• 4 national and international papers.
• Journal of Nursing Research Society of India
  Indian Journal Of Psychiatry
  Journal Of Contemporary Medical Education-2017
  The Indian Police Journal-2017
• Formal global launch as paper presentation in psychiatric community at Kolkata on 16th Dec 2017 at 10th SAARC psychiatric conference.

2. What is EWI?

• Emotional Wellness Index is a term coined by Dr Sandeep Vohra for a colour band generated as a result of an individual after answering 55 questions online on software based rating scale named as Stress-o- meter.

3. What is the Stress-o-meter?

• It is a software based diagnostic tool designed to generate overall emotional wellness index and subsequent stress emanating from five areas of life (nature, circumstances, clinical symptoms, domestic life and professional life) beside screening for major mental disorders.

4. What does the colour band indicate?

• The result on stress-o-meter is depicted on a colour band (green, blue, yellow orange and red) referred as the emotional wellness index. If it’s green then an individual is likely to be emotionally well, but if the result obtained is blue, yellow, orange or red, it indicates emotional disturbance of increasing severity.

5. Is it validated and approved by any Indian organization?

• The scientific validity research paper will appear in the May Edition of Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2019 named "Measuring Reliability and Validity of "Stressometer"®: A Computer-Based Mass Screening and Assessment Tool for Evaluation of Stress-level and Sources of Stressors"

6. Is this tool only for working population?

• The tool is available and valid for all working/non working adults(18 years and above).

7. Is there any tool for students?

• For any student above the age of 13 years (school/college going), a different tool named ‘Student Emotional Wellness Index’ is available(being validated)

Student Emotional Wellness Index

8. What is the Student Emotional Wellness Index?

• Student Emotional Wellness Index is a unique concept measuring quantum of stress in five key dimensions (nature/ coping resources, circumstances, clinical symptoms, home/ hostel life and academic life) of a student’s life. The tool can be used for any student above 13 yrs of age.
• The result on student emotional wellness index is also depicted on a colour band (green, blue, yellow orange and red). On the colour band green indicates no stress, whereas blue, yellow, orange or red, indicates stress of increasing severity.

9. Why does it have 55 questions?

• In order to cover all the important emotional aspects of an individual such as nature, circumstances, clinical symptoms, domestic life and professional life, it was of utmost importance that 55 questions are used in order to have an equal analysis of each subset.

10. Is it available in other languages?

• Currently, it is available in Hindi and English but soon it will be available in all Indian regional and global languages.

11. How will this tool benefit our organization?

• The tool will help to analyse and screen out employees who might be underperforming due to the current stressors in their lives. Additionally, it can also be used at the entry and exit level for the employees to assees the mental health and coping abilities.

12. What are the types of questions in the tool?

• The questions vary from an individual’s day to day life, coping skills and circumstances.

13. Why should we as physicians use this tool?

• This is a tool which can be used to analyze patient’s coming to the physician’s clinic having concomitant stress besides existing physical illness like diabetes, hypertension etc. without compromising on the time spent with the patient.

14. How can we circulate the test? In Paper pencil format or otherwise?

• The tool is available in a pencil paper format as well, but the most time saving and easy method is to take the test sitting at your PC/laptops/tabs.