Includes articles originally published in Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, vol. 29, no. 5 and vol. 31, no. 2 with five articles written for this volume.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Foreword / D. Goldberg --;Ch. 1. Introduction / G. Thornicroft and M. Tansella --;Ch. 2. Statistical Methods for Measuring Outcomes / G. Dunn --;Ch. 3. Global Function Scales / M. Phelan, T. Wykes and H. Goldman --;Ch. 4. Satisfaction with Psychiatric Services / M. Ruggeri --;Ch. 5. Instruments Measuring Family of Caregiver Burden in Severe Mental Illness / A.H. Schene, R.C. Tessler and G.M. Gamache --;Ch. 6. Measures of Quality of Life Among Persons with Severe and Persistent Mental Disorders / A.F. Lehman --;Ch. 7. Quality of Mental Health Service Care: The Forgotten Pathway from Process to Outcome / T.S. Brugha and F. Lindsay --;Ch. 8. Measuring Social Disabilities in Mental Health / D. Wiersma --;Ch. 9. SCAN (Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry) and the PSE (Present State Examination) Tradition / J. Wing --;Ch. 10. Mental Health Care Costs: Paucity of Measurement / P. McCrone and S. Weich.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This text provides a review of measurement scales currently available to assess the outcome of mental health service intervention. It assesses the contributions of scale in areas including mental state examination, quality of life, patient satisfaction, and need assessments.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Mental health services -- Research -- Methodology.