Mental Health Outcome Measures

✍ Scribed by Graham Thornicroft, Michele Tansella (auth.), Professor Graham Thornicroft, Professor Michele Tansella (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Leaves: 234
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Mental Health Outcome Measures provides an authoritative review of measurement scales currently available to assess the outcomes of mental health service 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 chapters provide a critical appraisal of how far such scales have been shown to be reliable and valid, and provide valuable insights in to their ease of use. This book will provide an invaluable reference manual for those who want to take research on mental health services, and for those who need to interpret this research for policy, planning, and clinical practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Introduction....Pages 1-2
Statistical Methods for Measuring Outcomes....Pages 3-13
Global Function Scales....Pages 15-25
Satisfaction with Psychiatric Services....Pages 27-51
Instruments Measuring Family or Caregiver Burden in Severe Mental Illness....Pages 53-73
Measures of Quality of Life Among Persons with Severe and Persistent Mental Disorders....Pages 75-92
Quality of Mental Health Service Care: The Forgotten Pathway From Process to Outcome....Pages 93-109
Measuring Social Disabilities in Mental Health....Pages 111-122
SCAN (Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry) and the PSE (Present State Examination) Tradition....Pages 123-130
Mental Health Care Costs: Paucity of Measurement....Pages 131-142
Uses and Limits of Randomised Controlled Trials in Mental Health Service Research....Pages 143-151
Psychiatric Assessment Instruments Developed by the World Health Organization....Pages 153-177
The Composite International Diagnostic Interview: An Instrument for Measuring Mental Health Outcome?....Pages 179-187
Assessment Instruments in Psychiatry: Description and Psychometric Properties....Pages 189-206
Multi-dimensional Assessment of Outcome: The Analysis of Conditional Independence as an Integrated Statistical Tool to Model the Relationships Between Variables....Pages 207-216
Assessing Needs for Mental Health Services....Pages 217-226
Measuring Outcomes in Mental Health: Implications for Policy....Pages 227-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-231

✦ Subjects

Psychiatry

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