Mental Health Outcome Measures

This book guides the reader through the minefield of outcome measurement, providing the building blocks for evidence-based mental health service provision and evaluation.

Graham Thornicroft (Edited by), Michelle Tansella (Edited by)

9781904671923, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Paperback / softback, published 1 September 2010

372 pages
23.5 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm, 0.65 kg

Evidence-based medicine demands that clinical outcomes are measurable and practicable. Yet mental health outcomes have always been notoriously difficult to quantify. This book guides the reader through the minefield of outcome measurement, providing the building blocks for evidence-based mental health service provision and evaluation. This new edition charts the increased range of outcome domains that are now measurable, while reflecting a new emphasis on positive outcomes and recovery, and the central role of the service user's experience. Fully revised and updated. New service-user focus and emphasis on recovery. Guide to a key aspect of evidence-based practice. With authors drawn from centres of excellence around the world, this volume will be essential for all those involved in research, commissioning and provision of mental health services.

List of tables, boxes and figures
List of contributors
Foreword David Goldberg
Foreword Robert E. Drake
Preface: an evolving perspective of mental health outcome measures
Part I. Methodological Issues: 1. Measures of outcomes that are valued by service users Thomas Kahir and Til Wykes
2. Statistical methods for measuring outcomes Graham Dunn
3. Assessment instruments in mental health: description and metric properties Luis Salvador-Carulla and Juan-Luis González-Caballero
4. Using outcomes in routine clinical practice to support recovery Mike Slade, Lindsay Oades and Bernd Puschner
Part II. Domains of Outcome Measurement: 5. Global functioning scales Emese Csipke and Til Wykes
6. Satisfaction with mental health services Mirella Ruggeri
7. Measuring family and carer burden in severe mental illness: the instruments Bob van Wijngaarden and Aart H. Schene
8. Measures of quality of life for persons with severe mental disorders Anthony F. Lehman and Antonio Lasalvia
9. Measuring social disabilities in mental health and employment outcomes Durk Wiersma and Thomas Becker
10. Measuring the costs of mental healthcare Paul McCrone and Scott Weich
11. Assessing needs for mental healthcare Mike Slade, Sonia Johnson, Michael Phelan and Graham Thornicroft
12. Measuring stigma and discrimination related to mental illness Elaine Brohan, Mike Slade, Sarah Clement and Graham Thornicroft
Part III. Symptom Severity Outcome Measures: 13. Top-down versus bottom-up measures of depression David Goldberg
14. Symptom severity outcome measures for depression Tom Trauer and David J. Castle
15. Outcome measures for people with personality disorders Paul Moran and Rohan Borschmann
16. The Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry and the tradition of the Present State Examination John K. Wing and Traolach S. Brugha
Part IV. International Approaches to Outcome Assessment: 17. Psychiatric assessment instruments developed by the World Health Organization Norman Sartorius, Aleksander Janca, Shekhar Saxena and T. Bedirhan Üstün
18. Measuring outcomes in mental health: implications for policy Rachel Jenkins, Graham Mellsop and Bruce Singh
19. Outcome measures for the treatment of depression in primary care William E. Narrow and Farifteh F. Duffy
Index.

Subject Areas: Clinical psychology [MMJ]