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Quality of life assessment: the World Health Organization perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

S Saxena ,
J Orley  and
WHOQOL Group
S Saxena
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi110029, India
J Orley
Affiliation:
Programme on Mental Health, Division of Mental Health and Prevention of Substance abuse, World Health Organization, 1211Geneva 27, Switzerland
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Summary

Assessment of quality of life (QoL) and use of this information towards improvement of health care services is an important area of activity of the World Health Organization (WHO). This paper briefly discusses the conceptual basis and the methodology used in WHO's Quality of Life Project (WHOQOL). It describes the simultaneous development of instruments in widely different cultures to assess subjective QoL. Use of these instruments in the field of clinical trials with psychotropics is highlighted.

Keywords

quality of lifeclinical trialspsychotropicscross-cultural assessment
Type
Research Article
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 12 , Issue S3 , 1997 , pp. 263s - 266s
Copyright
Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1997

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