Research Catalog

Title

Mental health outcome measures / Graham Thornicroft, Michele Tansella, (eds.).

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Tansella, Michele.
• Thornicroft, Graham.

Description

x, 231 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology.

Subject

• Mental Health Services
• Mental health services > Methodology
• Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)
• Psychiatry > Methodology

Note

• Includes articles originally published in: Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / D. Goldberg -- Ch. 1. Introduction / G. Thornicroft and M. Tansella -- Ch. 2. Statistical Methods for Measuring Outcomes / G. Dunn -- Ch. 3. Global Function Scales / M. Phelan, T. Wykes and H. Goldman -- Ch. 4. Satisfaction with Psychiatric Services / M. Ruggeri -- Ch. 5. Instruments Measuring Family of Caregiver Burden in Severe Mental Illness / A. H. Schene, R. C. Tessler and G. M. Gamache -- Ch. 6. Measures of Quality of Life Among Persons with Severe and Persistent Mental Disorders / A. F. Lehman -- Ch. 7. Quality of Mental Health Service Care: The Forgotten Pathway from Process to Outcome / T. S. Brugha and F. Lindsay -- Ch. 8. Measuring Social Disabilities in Mental Health / D. Wiersma -- Ch. 9. SCAN (Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry) and the PSE (Present State Examination) Tradition / J. Wing -- Ch. 10. Mental Health Care Costs: Paucity of Measurement / P. McCrone and S. Weich --
• Ch. 11. Uses and Limits of Randomised Controlled Trials in Mental Health Service Research / R. Taylor and G. Thornicroft -- Ch. 12. Psychiatric Assessment Instruments Developed by the World Health Organization / N. Sartorius and A. Janca -- Ch. 13. The Composite International Diagnostic Interview: An Instrument for Measuring Mental Health Outcome? / H.-U. Wittchen and C. B. Nelson -- Ch. 14. Assessment Instruments in Psychiatry: Description and Psychometric Properties / L. Salvador-Carulla -- Ch. 15. Multi-dimensional Assessment of Outcome: The Analysis of Conditional Independence as an Integrated Statistical Tool to Model the Relationships Between Variables / A. Biggeri, P. Rucci, M. Ruggeri and M. Tansella -- Ch. 16. Assessing Needs for Mental Health Services / S. Johnson, G. Thornicroft, M. Phelan and M. Slade -- Ch. 17. Measuring Outcomes in Mental Health: Implications for Policy / R. Jenkins.

ISBN

• 3540610731 (alk. paper)
• 0387610731 (alk. paper)

LCCN

96015971

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries