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Mental Health Outcome Measures

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Graham Thornicroft

    1. Institute of Psychiatry, PRiSM, London, UK

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  2. Michele Tansella

    1. Servizio di Psicologia Medica, Istituto di Psichiatria, Università di Verona, Verona, Italy

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Psychiatry, PRiSM, London, UK

    Graham Thornicroft

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

    Michele Tansella

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mental Health Outcome Measures

  • Editors: Graham Thornicroft, Michele Tansella

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80202-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-80204-1Published: 19 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-80202-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 231

  • Topics: Psychiatry

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