International Outcome Measures in Mental Health: Quality of Life, Needs, Service Satisfaction, Costs and Impact on Carers
Graham Thornicroft, Thomas Becker, Martin Knapp, Helle Charlotte Knudsen, Aart Schene, Michele Tansella and José Luis Vázquez-Barquero
How do we know if mental health
services work? What are the best ways to measure the outcomes of
care for people with mental health problems?
This book contains five practical
scales for assessing the outcomes of mental healthcare. They are
the European versions of:
- Camberwell Assessment of Need (for unmet and met needs)
- Client Socio-demographic and Service Receipt Inventory (for
service costs)
- Involvement Evaluation Questionnaire (for impact of care on
family members)
- Lancashire Quality of Life Profile (for quality of life)
- Verona Service Satisfaction Scale (for service
satisfaction).
Each scale has been standardised (in Danish, Dutch, English,
Italian and Spanish), and has been shown to be reliable and valid
in all these European languages.
The book contains full details of the
development of these scales, manuals for their use, the scales
themselves and instructions on how to use the results. These new
measures will be invaluable to all those in research, evaluation,
audit and management who have an interest in evidence-based policy
and practice in mental healthcare.
"Essential reading for any European
health service researcher or clinician intending to use one of the
measures. Each section is written by an expert and covers all the
key theoretical and practical points that you could possibly want
to know. ...As a 'how to do it' manual, this book will be
invaluable to all those interested in research, evaluation, audit
and management."
Journal of Mental
Health
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Part I: Development of
scales to measure mental health outcomes
1. The EPSILON Study:
aims, outcome measures, study sites and patient sample
2. Translation and
cross-cultural adaptation of outcome measurements for
schizophrenia
3. Methodology of a
multi-site reliability study
Part II: Camberwell
Assessment of Need – European Version
4. Introduction and
manual for the CAN–EU
5. Development and
reliability of the CAN–EU
6. Camberwell Assessment
of Need – European Version
Part III: Client
Socio-demographic and Service Receipt Inventory – European
Version
7. Development of the
CSSRI–EU
8. Introduction and manual
for the CSSRI–EU
9. Client
Socio-demographic and Service Receipt Inventory – European
Version
Part IV: Involvement
Evaluation Questionnaire – European Version
10. Introduction and
manual for the IEQ–EU
11. Development and
reliability of the IEQ–EU
12. Involvement Evaluation
Questionnaire – European Version
Part V: Lancashire Quality
of Life Profile – European Version
13. Introduction and
manual for the LQoLP–EU
14. Development and
reliability of the LQoLP–EU
15. Lancashire Quality of
Life Profile – European Version
Part VI: Verona Service
Satisfaction Scale – European Version
16. Introduction and
manual for VSSS–EU
17. Development and
reliability of the VSSS–EU
18. Verona Service
Satisfaction Scale – European Version