Titlebook: Mental Health Outcome Measures; Graham Thornicroft,Michele Tansella Book 1996 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1996 assessment.health.hea

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Statistical Methods for Measuring Outcomes,practice will be far greater. One of the main purposes of an evaluative exercise is comparison: which approach to service provision is the better? If care providers really want to be involved in mental health service evaluation then their time would be much better spent in taking part in a large multicentre trial.

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The Composite International Diagnostic Interview: An Instrument for Measuring Mental Health Outcome, 1993). Although initially developed for large-scale general population research (e.g., National Comorbidity Survey (NCS); Early Developmental Stages of Psychopathology (EDSP; Kessler et al., 1994, Wittchen et al. in press), the CIDI can also be used for clinical and health service research (see review: Wittchen 1994).

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Instruments Measuring Family or Caregiver Burden in Severe Mental Illness,rs, including several that have not previously been reported. The protocols are described in terms of their method and comprehensiveness, precursors and theoretical foundations, and types of psychometric information available. The instruments are assessed for potential use as research tools, and also for application in routine clinical practice.

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Book 1996rvice intervention. The excerpt of summaries by leading writers in the field assess the contributions of scale in areas including mental state examination, quality of life, patient satisfaction, needs assessments, measurement of service cost, global functioning scales, and social disability. These c

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Satisfaction with Psychiatric Services,s of the present paper are: (i) to update work done in the field of satisfaction with mental health services in the last decade; (2) to describe the main instruments currently available to measure patients’ and relatives’ satisfaction with mental health services; (3) to provide guidelines for the fu

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Assessment Instruments in Psychiatry: Description and Psychometric Properties,t is less precie, and has been undervalued until very recently. The growing demand for intangible parameters — such as satisfaction, support, autonomy, quality of life or level of disability — dictates that the use of these instruments is currently essential in any health care field.