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Issues in Quality of Life Assessment in Schizophrenia
  Quality of Life is an important aspect of everyday functioning to patients with a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia. The multifactorial nature of schizophrenia enmeshed within a biopsychosocial phenomena and the impact of pharmacological therapy makes the accurate assessment of quality of life in this group highly complex. Consequently, the development and evaluation of instruments designed to assess the concept is vital in this group. This chapter will assess the issues involved in assessing quality of life in this unique group of patients.

  • Date:

    31 December 2010

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    Springer Science + Business Media

  • DOI:

    10.1007/978-0-387-78665-0_209

  • Library of Congress:

    RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    616.8 Nervous & mental disorders

Citation

Martin, C. R., & Fleming, M. (2010). Issues in Quality of Life Assessment in Schizophrenia. In Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures, 3607-3624. Springer Science + Business Media. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-78665-0_209

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Keywords

Quality of life, schizophrenia, pharmacological therapy,

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