Instrument
The five WHO-5 questions produce a raw score from 0 to 25, converted to a score from 0 to 100.
View the official WHO-5 publication ↗
Public and responsible data
Connecta Wellbeing Observatory
Longitudinal follow-up designed to help each participant understand their progress and, with their agreement, publish transparent collective findings.
The Observatory is an observational evaluation of our support. It is not proof of medical effectiveness.
Data collection in preparation
No numerical result is published until an aggregate includes at least 15 consenting participants. The methodology is public from the outset.
How measurements are collected
The same standardized instrument is offered at three times. Public analyses include only participants who gave optional consent and never display individual rows.
Schedule
- Day −7: pre-retreat measure
- Day +14: two weeks later
- Day +90: three months later
Analysis
Stage means and paired changes are reported with their sample size and a descriptive 95% interval. No result below the threshold is exposed.
What these findings cannot establish
- Without a control group, observed changes cannot be attributed to the retreat alone.
- Answers are self-reported and may be influenced by participant expectations.
- Long-term respondents may differ from people who stop responding.
- One person may contribute several cycles after attending several retreats; means therefore describe follow-up cycles, while the confidentiality threshold counts distinct people.
- A WHO-5 score is a wellbeing indicator, not a medical diagnosis.
Data, consent and confidentiality
The medical questionnaire remains primarily a safety tool. Its use by the Observatory is a separate, explicit and optional choice applying only to responses collected after this consent was introduced.
Authorised medical scope in version 1
- derived age band, never the date of birth in publications;
- self-reported sex;
- pre-retreat anxiety level;
- whether current psychological or psychiatric follow-up is present;
- psychiatric treatment change during the previous twelve months;
- previous ayahuasca experience;
- whether a recent major event occurred, without the free-text account.
Always excluded from the Observatory v1 analysis dataset
Names, contact details, free text, detailed diagnoses, hospitalisations, suicidal history, medication names and dosages, emergency contacts and all unnecessary information.
The website publishes anonymous, aggregated statistics only. Individual and pseudonymised data are never accessible to search engines or AI assistants.
Consent can be withdrawn through the personal questionnaire link or by emailing stef@connecta.life. Withdrawal excludes the data from future analyses.
Data protection notice
- Data controller: Connecta Life, Carrer d’Amàlia Soler, piso 2, 08720 Vilafranca del Penedès, Barcelona, Spain — stef@connecta.life.
- Legal basis: your explicit consent under Articles 6(1)(a) and 9(2)(a) GDPR. Refusal has no effect on your retreat.
- Recipients: authorised Connecta Life staff responsible for analysis and OVH hosting in France only. No individual or pseudonymised file is made public or transferred to an external researcher under this version.
- Retention: the limited Observatory profile is deleted when consent is withdrawn and no later than the three-year health-data retention period following the last participation. The strictly necessary evidence of your choice may be retained to demonstrate compliance with your rights. A contribution can no longer be removed from aggregates that have already been anonymised.
- Rights: access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and withdrawal of consent. You may email stef@connecta.life and lodge a complaint with the AEPD.
Access for researchers, journalists and AI assistants
This page presents findings as sentences and HTML tables. The same aggregates are available in stable structured formats. Neither file contains individual rows.
