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Assessing the Quality of Life in Mental Illness

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Whenever in the past few years goals and standards for the assessment of medical management have been debated, health-related quality of life has increasingly been an issue (Najman and Levine 1981; Spilker 1996). This development originated in the question of whether the classical medical treatment outcome criteria (symptoms, survival time) provide a sufficient basis for treatment. With the definition of health as suggested by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1947 (i.e. physical, mental and social well-being) in mind and based on a humanistic view of patients as individuals, the concept of health-related quality of life reflects our modern-day philosophy (Schölmerich and Thews 1992).

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