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A Quality of Life Interview for the chronically mentally ill.
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The development and psychometric evaluation of a structured, 45-minute Quality of Life Interview for the chronically mentally ill is described, which has satisfactory reliability and validity.About:
This article is published in Evaluation and Program Planning.The article was published on 1988-01-01. It has received 1043 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population.read more
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The relationship between neurocognition and social cognition with functional outcomes in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis.
Anne-Kathrin Fett,Wolfgang Viechtbauer,Maria de Gracia Dominguez,David L. Penn,Jim van Os,Lydia Krabbendam +5 more
TL;DR: Overall, social cognition was more strongly associated with community functioning than neurocognition, with the strongest associations being between theory of mind and functional outcomes.
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Quality of life: Its definition and measurement☆
David John Felce,Jonathan Perry +1 more
TL;DR: A model of quality of life is proposed that integrates objective and subjective indicators, a broad range of life domains, and individual values, and allows for objective comparisons to be made between the situations of particular groups and what is normative.
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Longitudinal studies of cognition and functional outcome in schizophrenia: implications for MATRICS.
TL;DR: Results from these studies reveal considerable support for longitudinal associations between cognition and community outcome in schizophrenia and demonstrate that cognitive assessment predict later functional outcome and provide a rationale for psychopharmacological interventions for cognitive deficits in schizophrenia.
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Development, reliability and acceptability of a new version of the DSM-IV Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale (SOFAS) to assess routine social functioning.
TL;DR: Development, reliability and acceptability of a new version of the DSM‐IV Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale (SOFAS) to assess routine social funtioning are studied.
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Prevalence and Correlates of Diabetes in National Schizophrenia Samples
Lisa B. Dixon,Peter J. Weiden,Janine Delahanty,Richard W. Goldberg,Leticia Postrado,Alicia Lucksted,Anthony F. Lehman +6 more
TL;DR: This study of diabetes in the early 1990s suggests that even before the widespread use of the atypical antipsychotic drugs, diabetes was a major problem for persons with schizophrenia.
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A Diagnostic Interview: The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia
Jean Endicott,Robert L. Spitzer +1 more
TL;DR: Initial scale development and reliability studies of the items and the scale scores are reported on.
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Alternative to Mental Hospital Treatment: I. Conceptual Model, Treatment Program, and Clinical Evaluation
Leonard I. Stein,Mary Ann Test +1 more
TL;DR: Use of the community program for 14 months greatly reduced the need to hospitalize patients and enhanced the community tenure and adjustment of the experimental patients, and the results suggest that community programming should be comprehensive and ongoing.
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The Quality of Life Scale: An Instrument for Rating the Schizophrenic Deficit Syndrome
TL;DR: The authors describe the Quality of Life Scale (QLS), a 21-item scale based on a semistructured interview designed to assess deficit symptoms and thereby fill an important gap in the range of instruments now available.