Durability of the efficacy of integrated care in schizophrenia: a five-year randomized controlled study.

Objective: The aim of the study was to evaluate the durability of efficacy of the Integrated Care (IC) program in a Swedish context. The IC program is a person-centered flexible assertive community treatment approach delivered through a novel mechanism: a resource group clinical microsystem for each patient.

Methods: All patients with schizophrenia in a Gothenburg urban-sector catchment area were randomly assigned to either the IC or the Rational Rehabilitation (RR) programs.

The self-assessment Global Quality of Life scale: Reliability and construct validity.

Abstract Objective. The aim was to establish psychometric properties of the Global Quality of Life Scale (GQL) for people with severe mental illness. Methods.

Self-reported consumer satisfaction in mental health services: validation of a self-rating version of the UKU-Consumer Satisfaction Rating Scale.

The UKU-Consumer Satisfaction Rating Scale (UKU-ConSat) for the evaluation of consumer satisfaction in mental health services was constructed for assessments by independent professional interviewers. In the present study, a patient self-reported version of the scale is validated against the original version. The Spearman's rank correlation between single items, subscores and the total of the original scale and the self-assessment version was found to be good.

Symptoms profile and quality of life in rural and urban patients with chronic psychoses.

The symptoms profile (modified Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale, PANSS) and the quality of life (Lancashire Quality of Life Profile, LQLP, and the Quality of Life Scale 100, QLS-100) were compared between two groups of patients with chronic psychoses: a rural group of 19 patients living in villages with < or =300-10,000 inhabitants and far away from a large city, and an urban group of 19 patients living in a major city with 250,000 inhabitants. The patients were matched pair-wise for sex, age, global assessment of functioning (GAF) and psychiatric symptoms (modified PANSS, total score). Seventeen of the pairs were diagnosed with schizophrenia, and two pairs with delusional disorder.