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The Measure Well platform and the Warwick Holistic Health Questionnaire (WHHQ) were developed by professionals working in the wellness sector. Born from a need to quantify and qualify client wellbeing, the processes applied to patient reported outcome measures have proved successful with the NHS and private practices.
Dr Nicola Brough has worked in complementary and integrative medicine for over 20 years, she is an experienced craniosacral therapy practitioner and Reiki Master Teacher, clinical supervisor, and group facilitator. Earlier in her career, Nicola worked for a leadership and management company delivering programmes and psychometric testing for training and recruitment purposes. Using tools to measure the ‘inner world’ intrigued Nicola and paved the way to develop the WHHQ as part of her PhD.
For five years, Nicola ran the Torus Wellbeing Clinic supporting the mental and physical health of the community within Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
Nicola has an undergraduate degree in European Business Administration, a Master of Philosophy in Health Sciences and a PhD in Health Sciences from the University of Warwick Medical School, UK. She has published research papers discussing wellbeing and the use of the Warwick Holistic Health Questionnaire a patient reported outcome measure.
Andrea McCutcheon is a results-oriented business professional with over 20 years’ experience across retail, corporate, industry and software sectors. The early years of Andrea’s career were retail focussed striving to deliver excellent customer service and business growth. An opportunity arose that shifted her career into corporate and utilities with a strong focus on software, delivering programmes with outcomes benefiting consumer and customer service.
Andrea enjoys building strong relationships and is passionate about delivering successful projects and new implementations to achieve business goals.
As a business partner of Measure Well, Andrea is committed to helping all clients to gain the best out of their businesses using the products and services available and demonstrating the value and benefits to each customer.
The Measure Well platform and the Warwick Holistic Health Questionnaire (WHHQ) were developed by professionals working in the wellness sector. Born from a need to quantify and qualify client wellbeing, the processes applied to patient reported outcome measures have proved successful with the NHS and private practices.
Dr Nicola Brough has worked in complementary and integrative medicine for over 20 years, she is an experienced craniosacral therapy practitioner and Reiki Master Teacher, clinical supervisor, and group facilitator. Earlier in her career, Nicola worked for a leadership and management company delivering programmes and psychometric testing for training and recruitment purposes. Using tools to measure the ‘inner world’ intrigued Nicola and paved the way to develop the WHHQ as part of her PhD.
For five years, Nicola ran the Torus Wellbeing Clinic supporting the mental and physical health of the community within Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
Nicola has an undergraduate degree in European Business Administration, a Master of Philosophy in Health Sciences and a PhD in Health Sciences from the University of Warwick Medical School, UK. She has published research papers discussing wellbeing and the use of the Warwick Holistic Health Questionnaire a patient reported outcome measure.
Andrea McCutcheon is a results-oriented business professional with over 20 years’ experience across retail, corporate, industry and software sectors. The early years of Andrea’s career were retail focussed striving to deliver excellent customer service and business growth. An opportunity arose that shifted her career into corporate and utilities with a strong focus on software, delivering programmes with outcomes benefiting consumer and customer service.
Andrea enjoys building strong relationships and is passionate about delivering successful projects and new implementations to achieve business goals.
As a business partner of Measure Well, Andrea is committed to helping all clients to gain the best out of their businesses using the products and services available and demonstrating the value and benefits to each customer.
Gold Standard methodology was used to develop and validate the WHHQ as a patient reported outcome measure (PROM) primarily used for clinical practice. Dr Nicola Brough developed and validated the WHHQ for her PhD with Professor Sarah Stewart-Brown and Dr Helen Parsons of University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School, Health Sciences Division.
Applying qualitative and quantitative approaches to the research provided the opportunity to include genuine experiences from craniosacral therapy (CST) clients and practitioners to ensure face and content validity. A conceptual framework of CST outcomes became the basis from which the Warwick Holistic Health Questionnaire was developed. An introduction to the Conceptual framework can be found here: Introduction to conceptual framework of CST outcomes and a visual representation can be seen here: Diagram of Conceptual Framework of CST Outcomes.
The WHHQ has been used to evaluate wellness interventions, including craniosacral therapy, Reiki, yoga, meditation, and fitness classes. The scoring system has been applied in UK NHS oncology departments, the voluntary sector and private practices offering wellbeing interventions, mental health support, complementary and alternative medicine, and energy medicine.
Due to its relevance and flexibility, practitioners continually find new areas to use the WHHQ.
The WHHQ-25/18 is currently available in English. We are working with our translation team to create versions in Polish, German, Italian and Spanish.
We are particularly interested in working with membership organisations (such as International Craniosacral Therapy Associations), to enable their members to access the WHHQ-25/18 in their native language.
To express an interest in, or to find out about the costs associated with translations for using the Measure Well system featuring WHHQ-25/18 in your country hello@measurewell.co.uk.
Are you looking to set up a service evaluation or need some guidance on how best to evaluate within your setting?
Team Measure Well have the embodied knowledge to support you to implement best practice, they understand the needs of practice and client management whether you are a department within the National Health Service, a multidisciplinary clinic, a sole practitioner, gym, sports club or spa or in any other area of the wellness sector.
Dr Brough and Associates offer consultancy about patient reported outcome measures by the hour or day rate. Please email us for further information hello@measurewell.co.uk.
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