Beyond assessment of quality of life in schizophrenia. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by George Awad, Lakshmi N.P. Voruganti.
• Editors: Awad, George; Voruganti, Lakshmi N. P
• Contents: Part I:Basic and Conceptual Issues.- Schizophrenia and it's sequelae.- Issues that slowed progress in the assessment of health-related quality of life in schizophrenia.- Social cognition and health-related quality of life in schizophrenia.- Conceptual issues in cultural adaptation and the role of culture in assessment of health-related quality of life in schizophrenia.- Part II:Methodological Issues.- A review of quality of life assessment measures in schizophrenia – limitations and future developments – a review.- Assessment of burden of care and quality of life of caregivers in schizophrenia.- Electronic technology and advances in assessment of outcomes.- Modern psychometric approaches to analysis of scales for health-related quality of life.- Part III:Beyond Assessment of Quality of Life in Schizophrenia.- Health-related quality of life as an outcome and mediator of other outcomes.- Using routine quality of life assessment to improve effectiveness of community mental health care.- Quality of life assessments in the development and clinical trials of new antipsychotics – pharmaceutical industry perspective.- Quality of life and health-costs – the feasibility of cost-utility analysis in schizophrenia.- Health-related quality of life in schizophrenia: health policy and resource allocation.- Beyond assessment of quality of life in schizophrenia: cultural, clinical and research perspectives from India – a case study.- Part IV:Reinventing Quality of Life in Schizophrenia.- Concluding remarks and future challenges.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Adis
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Subjects: 616.898; Medicine; Schizophrenia; Schizophrenics -- Life skills guides; Medical -- Public Health; Personal & public health; Psychopharmacology; Quality of Life -- Research; Medical -- Psychiatry -- Psychopharmacology; Psychopharmacology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319300610
• Related ISBNs: 9783319300597
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