Abstract:
The most important information about any client or patient is the PHI, (Personal Happiness Index). Like temperature, pulse, or BP, PHI is a true "vital sign" and the tool needed for determining it is the Edo Questionnaire (aka PISA Scale).
The Edo Questionnaire is a twelve-item self-assessment scale that can identify happy people, unhappy people, very happy, very unhappy, languishing, or flourishing individuals in any given cohort. PHI ranges from 0.125 on the languishing end to 8.000 on the flourishing end of the scale. The questionnaire has good internal consistency with an alpha value of 0.88. Content validity ratio is 0.85—with ten SME used in calculating the CVR. Test-retest reliability is 0.95. Like all other vital signs, PHI should be routinely determined by every clinician—no matter what specialty.
Biography:
Alphonsus Obayuwana, M.D., Ph.D., CPC. is both a physician and a happiness guru. He is the Founder and CEO of Triple-H Project LLC, Perrysburg, Ohio, in USA. He is an award-winning author who has published several peer-reviewed articles in the national medical journals on the subject of Human Hope, including the Hope Index Scale that became widely used at Coca-Cola, General Motors, Veterans Administration, and many academic institutions inside and outside USA.
After thirty years of relentless research on Human Hope & Happiness, he successfully derived the Triple-H Equation that is at the core of The Mathematics of Happiness. Throughout his tenure as instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor—respectively at Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, Eastern Virginia Medical school, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, and University of Toledo—he taught and mentored medical students, resident physicians, nurses, and fellows in the art of caring and promoting happiness for themselves and their patients. Dr. Obayuwana is also a retired Major in the US Air Force (Reserve)
