SynthesisHealth and quality of life outcomes2021
Instruments to assess quality of life in people with mental health problems: a systematic review and dimension analysis of generic, domain- and disease-specific instruments.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Systematic review of the psychometric properties of quality-of-life outcome measures used with adult inpatient psychiatric populations.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026Pooled it
- Schizophrenia Quality of Life Scale and Schizophrenia Quality of Life Scale Revision 4: A Systematic Review of Measurement Properties.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Pooled it
- Principles and elements of patient-centredness in mental health services: a thematic analysis of a systematic review of reviews.BMJ open quality · 2024Pooled it
- A systematic review of health state utility values and psychometric performance of generic preference-based instruments for children and adolescents with mental health problems.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2023Pooled it
- Economic evaluation of interventions for treatment-resistant depression: A systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Development of the Japanese version of the Manchester short assessment of quality of life (MANSA) among people with self-reported severe mental illness.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Psychometric properties of Lehman's quality of life interview and its modifications: a systematic review using the COSMIN methodology.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- A new generic feline quality of life (FelQoL) questionnaire: part 2 - initial evaluation of clinical utility.Journal of feline medicine and surgery · 2026Article
- Systematic review exploring the quality of life of patients undergoing mental disorders treatment in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.Annals of general psychiatry · 2026Review
- The Burden of Disease of Treatment-Seeking Patients With a Cluster-C Personality Disorder in the Netherlands; Quality of Life, Functioning, and Societal Costs.Journal of clinical psychology · 2026Article
- Psychometric properties comparison of EQ-5D-Y-3L and CHU9D in children and adolescents across different BMI classifications in Jiangsu, China.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Toward developing more effective screening questionnaires for obstructive sleep apnoea: a conceptual model and testing.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026Article
- Measuring health-related quality of life: a qualitative study of mental health patients' experiences of impacts of mental health issues.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
- Schizophrenia.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2025Review
- Beyond symptom improvement: transdiagnostic and disorder-specific ways to assess functional and quality of life outcomes across mental disorders in adults.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2025Article
- HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) versus placebo for people with schizophrenia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties of Japanese version of the Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL).BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Resilience, personal recovery, and quality of life for psychiatric in-patients prior to hospital discharge: demographic and clinical determinants.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Methodological quality of 100 recent systematic reviews of health-related outcome measurement instruments: an overview of reviews.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024Review
- Interventions for smoking cessation in inpatient psychiatry settings.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectivesThe importance of economic evaluations of mental healthcare interventions is increasingly recognized. Despite the multitude of available quality of life instruments, concerns have been raised regarding the content validity of these instruments, and hence suitability for use in mental health. The aim of this paper, therefore, was to assess the content validity and the suitability of existing quality of life instruments for use in economic evaluations in mental health problems.
methodsIn order to identify available quality of life instruments used in people with mental health problems, a systematic review was performed using the Embase, Medline and PsycINFO databases (time period January 2012 to January 2018). Two reviewers independently assessed study eligibility and executed data extraction. The evaluation framework of Connell and colleagues was used to assess whether the identified quality of life instruments cover the dimensions valued highly by people with mental health problems. Two reviewers independently mapped the content of each identified instrument onto the evaluation framework and indicated the extent to which the instrument covered each of the dimensions of the evaluation framework.
resultsSearches of databases yielded a total of 5727 references. Following duplicate removal and double-independent screening, 949 studies were included in the qualitative synthesis. A total of 44 unique quality of life instruments were identified, of which 12 were adapted versions of original instruments. The best coverage of the dimensions of the evaluation framework of Connell and colleagues was by the WHOQOL-100, S-QoL, SQLS, EDQoL, QLI and the IMHQOL, but none fully covered all dimensions of the evaluation framework.
conclusionsThe results of this study highlight the multitude of available quality of life instruments used in people with mental health problems and indicate that none of the available quality of life instruments fully cover the dimensions previously found to be important in people with mental health problems. Future research should explore the possibilities of refining or expanding existing instruments as well as the development and testing of new quality of life instruments to ensure that all relevant quality of life dimensions for people with mental health problems are covered in evaluations.
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