{"id":6511,"date":"2020-11-17T15:10:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T15:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/?p=6511"},"modified":"2025-09-25T17:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:04:28","slug":"work-and-social-functioning-wsas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/work-and-social-functioning-wsas\/","title":{"rendered":"Work and Social Functioning | WSAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wysiwyg-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Work and Social Adjustment Scale\u00a0(WSAS)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wysiwyg-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Recommended\u00a0frequency: Every 4 weeks<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"wysiwyg-underline\"><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Work and Social Adjustment Scale (\u201cWSAS\u201d) is a simple and reliable measure for impairment in functioning. The WSAS assesses the impact of a person\u2019s mental health difficulties on their ability to function in terms of work, home management, social leisure, private leisure and personal or family relationships. This instrument is 5 questions long, and is a sensitive and useful outcome measure with correlations to severity of depression and some anxiety symptoms.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Psychometric Properties of the WSAS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Cronbach&#8217;s alpha measure of internal scale consistency ranged from 0.70 to 0.94. Test-retest correlation was 0.73. Correlations of WSAS with severity of depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms were 0.76 and 0.61, respectively. The scores were sensitive to patient differences in disorder severity and treatment-related change.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodmedicine.org.uk\/files\/assessment,%20disability,%200-8%20five%20areas,%20scoring_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.goodmedicine.org.uk\/files\/assessment,%20disability,%200-8%20five%20areas,%20scoring_0.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1E7bUz9RHSoJsPszLkn2DDwCECJvZLY1w\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span id=\"title\">A guide to IAPT data and publications<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work and Social Adjustment Scale\u00a0(WSAS) Recommended\u00a0frequency: Every 4 weeks Summary The Work and Social Adjustment Scale (\u201cWSAS\u201d) is a simple and reliable measure for impairment in functioning. The WSAS assesses the impact of a person\u2019s mental health difficulties on their ability to function in terms of work, home management, social leisure, private leisure and personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-assessment-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}