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Measuring quality of life in psychiatry

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Quality of Life Assessment: Key Issues in the 1990s

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Interest in quality of life measures for outcome assessment in psychiatry has been much slower to develop than in other disciplines such as cardiology, oncology and rheumatology. At first sight this is curious since it might be expected that psychiatrists would be more aware of the importance of social and psychological concomitants of illness and treatment. Unlike most medical specialties the accounts given by psychiatric patients and/or their relatives tend to form a major part of the material used in making a diagnosis and assessing improvement. However, even within psychiatry there is a strong tendency for the focus to be on the aetiology of the condition and those aspects of the patient’s function and feeling which are believed to be of clinical significance.

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  1. Welsh School of Pharmacy, University of Wales College, Cardiff, UK

    Stuart R. Walker (Director of the Centre for Medicines Research, Carshalton, and Honorary Professor) (Director of the Centre for Medicines Research, Carshalton, and Honorary Professor)

  2. University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London University, London, UK

    Rachel M. Rosser (Professor of Psychiatry and Head of Department) (Professor of Psychiatry and Head of Department)

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Hunt, S.M., McKenna, S.P. (1993). Measuring quality of life in psychiatry. In: Walker, S.R., Rosser, R.M. (eds) Quality of Life Assessment: Key Issues in the 1990s. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2988-6_20

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