Objectives Generic health status measures such as the short form health survey (SF-36) and
EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D) are increasingly being used to inform health policy. They are claimed …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the feasibility and reliability of the Medical Outcomes Study 36 Item
Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) for patients with schizophrenia, focusing on the eight …

ObjectiveTo compare three different kinds of health-related quality of life (HRQL)
questionnaires available for use in patients suffering from schizophrenia: the SF-36 (a …

Reliability and validity of the Quality of Life (QoL) construct were investigated in healthy
controls (N= 346), patients with depression (N= 114) and patients with schizophrenia (N …

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the construct validity of a generic health
related quality of life (HRQOL) instrument–the EQ-5D–in a sample of schizophrenic patients …

PurposeThe EQ-5D is a generic questionnaire generating a health profile and a single index
score for health-related quality of life. This study aimed to analyse the discriminative ability …

Abstract Quality-of-life (QoL) instruments measure the overall health status of people with
schizophrenia, for whom the activities of daily life are often difficult. However, information on …

Background: Quality of life (QoL) is considered an important outcome of treatment in
psychiatry. Two QoL instruments, the EuroQoL-5D (EQ-5D) and the Quality of Life …

Abstract The Schizophrenia Quality of Life Scale Revision 4 (SQLS-R4) appears to offer
excellent potential as an easily administered and patient acceptable assessment and …

Abstract The Quality of Life Scale (QLS) is a frequently used semistructured interview for the
assessment of functional outcomes in schizophrenia. Despite the use of the QLS for over 30 …