Across the addictions field, the primary outcome in treatment research has been reduction in
drug consumption. A comprehensive view of the impact of substance use disorders on …

Assessing quality of life (QoL) as a patient-reported outcome in adult psychiatry poses
challenges in terms of concepts, methods, and applications in research and practice. This …

Aims-The paper reviews recent findings from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) surveys
on the global burden of mental disorders. Methods-The WMH surveys are representative …

A avaliação de qualidade de vida vem crescendo em importância como medida de
avaliação de resultados de tratamento em medicina. A partir da constatação da falta de um …

Interest in the assessment of quality of life in the anxiety disorders is growing. The present
study examined quality of life impairments in individuals with generalized anxiety disorder …

BackgroundAdvocates of expanded mental health treatment assert that mental disorders are
as disabling as physical disorders, but little evidence supports this assertion. AimsTo …

BackgroundMeasurement of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) with generic preference-
based instruments enables comparisons of severity across different conditions and …

Hoffnung macht Sinn-das ist die Essenz der Recovery-Bewegung. Hier werden von
Betroffenen initiierte Genesungs-Konzepte und Erfahrungen mit Schizophrenie für …

Purpose–To compare the self‐reported estimation of sleep quality evaluated by the
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and life quality assessed by the Quality of Life Index …

Based on recently voiced concerns about a crisis in psychiatry, six challenges to our
profession are identified and discussed. As we approach the revisions of ICD-10 and DSM …