Mental Health Outcome Measures

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Introduction

   • Graham Thornicroft, Michele Tansella

   Pages 1-2

3. Statistical Methods for Measuring Outcomes

   • Graham Dunn

   Pages 3-13

4. Global Function Scales

   • Michael Phelan, Til Wykes, Howard Goldman

   Pages 15-25

5. Satisfaction with Psychiatric Services

   • Mirella Ruggeri

   Pages 27-51

6. Instruments Measuring Family or Caregiver Burden in Severe Mental Illness

   • Aart H. Schene, Richard C. Tessler, Gail M. Gamache

   Pages 53-73

7. Measures of Quality of Life Among Persons with Severe and Persistent Mental Disorders

   • Anthony F. Lehman

   Pages 75-92

8. Quality of Mental Health Service Care: The Forgotten Pathway From Process to Outcome

   • Traolach S. Brugha, Fiona Lindsay

   Pages 93-109

9. Measuring Social Disabilities in Mental Health

   • Durk Wiersma

   Pages 111-122

10. SCAN (Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry) and the PSE (Present State Examination) Tradition

    • John Wing

    Pages 123-130

11. Mental Health Care Costs: Paucity of Measurement

    • Paul McCrone, Scott Weigh

    Pages 131-142

12. Uses and Limits of Randomised Controlled Trials in Mental Health Service Research

    • Ruth Taylor, Graham Thornicroft

    Pages 143-151

13. Psychiatric Assessment Instruments Developed by the World Health Organization

    • Norman Sartorius, Aleksandar Janca

    Pages 153-177

14. The Composite International Diagnostic Interview: An Instrument for Measuring Mental Health Outcome?

    • Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, Christopher B. Nelson

    Pages 179-187

15. Assessment Instruments in Psychiatry: Description and Psychometric Properties

    • Luis Salvador-Carulla

    Pages 189-206

16. Multi-dimensional Assessment of Outcome: The Analysis of Conditional Independence as an Integrated Statistical Tool to Model the Relationships Between Variables

    • Annibale Biggeri, Paola Rucci, Mirella Ruggeri, Michele Tansella

    Pages 207-216

17. Assessing Needs for Mental Health Services

    • Sonia Johnson, Graham Thornicroft, Michael Phelan, Michael Slade

    Pages 217-226

18. Measuring Outcomes in Mental Health: Implications for Policy

    • Rachel Jenkins

    Pages 227-228

19. Back Matter

    Pages 229-231

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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.

• assessment
• health
• health services
• intervention
• outcome
• planning
• psychiatry
• quality
• quality of life
• research

• Institute of Psychiatry, PRiSM, London, UK

  Graham Thornicroft

• Servizio di Psicologia Medica, Istituto di Psichiatria, Università di Verona, Verona, Italy

  Michele Tansella

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