Quality of life after psychiatric rehabilitation: the clients’ perspective

Abstract

Fifty-five people discharged from inpatient psychiatric rehabilitation programs were interviewed 1 year after leaving hospital using the Client's Quality of Life Instrument. Following long periods of psychiatric hospitalization, these former patients had adapted to living in the larger community with considerable success. Ninety-six percent felt that their quality of life had improved as a consequence of leaving hospital. Most people had the necessary maintenance skills to live in community settings. They showed appropriate behaviors and blended into the larger community without difficulty. They used outreach support services provided by the hospital to help them in the transition to community living.

Subjective versus interviewer assessment of global quality of life among persons with schizophrenia living in the community: A Nordic multicentre study

“…The reliability and validity of self-reported quality of life in persons with schizophrenia has been questioned since they are assumed to a various extent to suffer from neurocognitive deficits, disturbed thinking and communication [5], poor insight [6], downward adaptations of aspirations and affective, cognitive and reality distortion fallacies [7]. This discussion also refers to frequent empirical findings that objective external life conditions are only weakly associated with the subjective perception of quality of life [6,[8][9][10][11][12][13]]. An external assessment of quality of life has therefore been suggested as a complement to self-reported quality of life in individuals with a severe mental illness [14].…”

Persuasion Strategies Applied in Psychosocial Rehabilitation

“…Various inventories of quality of life have been devised (Lehman, 1983;Levitt, Hogan, and Bucosky, 1990;Pinkney, Gerber, and Lafave, 1991;Okin and Pearsall, 1991;Sullivan, Wells and Leake, 1992;Frisch, Cornell, Villanueva, and Retzlaff, 1992;Barry, Crosby and Bogg, 1993). As far as I know, these have not been used to evaluate the results of specific rehabilitation programmes.…”

Qualité de vie et qualité des services

“…Dans ce contexte, la qualité de vie objective apparaît toujours meilleure dans la communauté qu'à l'hôpital Dickey et al, 1981;Gibbons et Butler, 1987;Okin et al, 1983;Okin et Pearsall, 1993;Pinkney et al, 1991;Stein et Test, 1980). Les domaines où l'impact des programmes est le plus évident sont ceux reliés au lieu de résidence, aux besoins de base, aux relations interpersonnelles, au bien-être psychologique et à l'emploi du temps.…”