Assessing the Quality of Life of the Long‐term Mentally Ill: A Comparative Study of Two Measures

Quality of Life and Other Characteristics of Viennese Mental Health Care Users

“…In the early 1980s the concept of QoL gained importance in research of community psychiatry (Oliver et al, 1996). A number of studies investigated the impact of different treatment experiences on QoL of psychiatric patients.…”

“…The following variables were positively correlated with QoL of the mentally ill: marital status (Koivumaa-Honkanen et al, 1996;Lehman, 1983), employment (Priebe et al, 1998;Kager et al, 2000), superior economic situation (Sullivan et al, 1992;Koivumaa-Honkanen et al, 1996), high age (Evans et al, 1999;Hoffmann et al, 2000), few depressive symptoms (Evans et al, 1999;Sullivan et al, 1992;Lehman, 1983;Oliver et al, 1996), diagnosis of schizophrenia (Atkinson et al, 1997;Henkel et al, 1999), low psychopathology (Kemmler et al, 1999;Hoffman et al, 2000), few medication side effects (Sullivan et al, 1992;Evans et al, 1999), and a high number of social contacts (Becker et al, 1998;Trauer et al, 1998).…”