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The clinical usefulness of quality of life assessments depends upon their ability to predict clinically important outcomes and to detect treatment-related change. In addition, norms for clinical — and not just nonclinical — samples are needed to demonstrate clinically significant change. These issues were explored in the context of a program of instrument validation for the QOLI or Quality of Life Inventory involving 3,927 clients from various clinical settings. Clinical norms for community mental health centers and university counseling centers were also generated that supplement existing nationwide, nonclinical norms. The predictive validity of the QOLI in a university counseling center was supported in terms of its ability to predict academic retention both by itself and in conjunction with cumulative G.P.A. one to three years in advance. The QOLI was also found to be sensitive to treatment-related change in two, naturalistic clinical settings and samples, that is, a managed care/substance abuse and a university counseling center setting. The interpretation and clinical utility of measures of quality of life and life satisfaction are discussed along with an agenda for further research.
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Frisch, M.B. et al. (2003). Predictive Validity and Sensitivity to Change in Quality of Life Assessment and Life Satisfaction: Further Studies of the Quality of Life Inventory or QOLI in Mental Health Settings. In: Sirgy, M.J., Rahtz, D., Samli, A.C. (eds) Advances in Quality-of-Life Theory and Research. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0387-1_12
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