Quality of Life and Other Characteristics of Viennese Mental Health Care Users
| Autor: | Andrea Lang, E. Steiner, Helga Henkel, Gerlinde Berghofer, Stephan Rudas, Friedrich Schmidl, Margot Schmitz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Gerontology medicine.medical_specialty Community Mental Health Centers Service use Personal Satisfaction Psychiatric Department Hospital 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Quality of life Predictive Value of Tests Residence Characteristics Sickness Impact Profile Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Psychiatry Social functioning Psychiatric Status Rating Scales business.industry Data Collection Mental Disorders Public health Life satisfaction Middle Aged After discharge Mental health humanities 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Cross-Sectional Studies Austria Quality of Life Mental health care Female business Social Adjustment Deinstitutionalization |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 48:59-69 |
| ISSN: | 1741-2854 0020-7640 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/002076402128783091 |
| Popis: | Background: The purposes of this study are (1) to characterise patients with different treatment experiences, (2) to evaluate differences in quality of life (QoL) among patients with different treatment experiences, (3) to evaluate changes in QoL following community resettlement, and (4) to find predictors of overall life satisfaction (OLS). Methods: Treatment experiences are defined according to service use as follows: (a) user of inand outpatient services (overall users), (b) user of inpatient (inpatients) or (c) outpatient facilities only (outpatients). Demographic and clinical data of 425 psychiatric patients are analysed cross-sectionally in relation to their treatment experiences. QoL of former inpatients is followed up after hospital discharge. Results: Long-term `overall users' have a significantly higher QoL than long-term `outpatients' or `inpatients'. QoL of former inpatients increases after discharge. Predictors of higher OLS are high income, high subjective social functioning (SFQ), good self-rated health, satisfactory QoL domains as well as being single or cohabiting, diagnosis of schizophrenia, `outpatients', and `overall users'. Together they explain 63% of the variance in patients' subjective OLS. Conclusion: QoL is independent of illness severity. Deinstitutionalisation improves QoL and OLS is mainly predicted by subjective variables. |
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