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Associations of Quality of Life with Service Satisfaction in Psychotic Patients: A Meta-Analysis.
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- Quality of life in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2026Pooled it
- Smoking behavior is associated with suicidality in individuals with psychosis and bipolar disorder: a systematic quantitative review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Quality of life in early-phase schizophrenia patients starting treatment with long-acting injectable vs. oral antipsychotic drugs: Data from the European Long-acting Antipsychotics in Schizophrenia Trial (EULAST).European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2026Trial
- Psychosocial Interventions, Recovery, and Mediating Mechanisms in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Service satisfaction and perceived social support mediate the effect of internalised stigma on quality of life of people with mental illness: mediation analysis.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Mental health service satisfaction among adults with mental illness attending a psychiatric outpatient clinic: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Variables Associated with Quality of Life Among Individuals Living in Permanent Supportive Housing.Community mental health journal · 2024Article
- Changes in Quality of Life in Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia Patients Undergoing Avatar Therapy: A Content Analysis.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
- Patients Satisfied with Care Report Better Quality of Life and Self-Rated Health-Cross-Sectional Findings Based on Hospital Quality Data.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Developing a mechanism-based therapy for acute psychiatric inpatients with psychotic symptoms: an Intervention Mapping approach.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Influence of mental health service provision on the perceived quality of life among psychiatric outpatients: associations and mediating factors.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Prediction of quality of life in schizophrenia using machine learning models on data from Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) schizophrenia trial.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2022Article
- Continuity of care is associated with satisfaction with local health care services.BMC family practice · 2020Article
- Patient's early satisfaction with care: a predictor of health-related quality of life change among outpatients with substance dependence.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2020Article
- Quality of life and service satisfaction in outpatients with severe or non-severe mental illness diagnoses.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2019Article
- Associated and mediating variables related to quality of life among service users with mental disorders.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundQuality of life (QoL) has gained increasing attention as a desired outcome of psychosocial treatments targeting psychotic patients. Yet, the relationship between the patients' satisfaction with services and QoL has not been clearly established, perhaps due to the multidimensionality of the QoL concept and the variability in its assessment.
aimThis is the first systematic meta-analysis of all available evidence assessing the relationship between QoL and service satisfaction.
methodsIn all, 19 studies reporting data of 21 independent samples (N = 5,337) were included in the present meta-analysis. In moderator analyses, effects of age, sex, diagnoses (schizophrenia vs. other psychoses), treatment context (inpatients vs. outpatients), study design (cross-sectional vs. longitudinal), and QoL domain (subjective vs. health-related) were examined.
resultsAnalyses revealed a highly significant medium-sized effect (r = .30, p < .001) for the associations of QoL and service satisfaction. Effect sizes were significantly stronger for subjective than health-related quality of life (r = .35 vs. r = .14, respectively). Moreover, associations with subjective QoL remained largely robust when accounting for moderating variables, although there was a trend of stronger associations for outpatients compared to inpatients. In contrast, effect sizes for health-related QoL were small and only observable for samples with longitudinal designs.
conclusionAssociations between QoL and service satisfaction appear to be robust but are differentiated in regard to QoL domain. Our findings suggest that agents responsible for service design and implementation need to take the patients' perception of the service adequacy for achieving QoL enhancement into account.
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