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Quality of life measurement in the medical setting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

P Bech
P Bech*
Affiliation:
Psykiatrisk Afdeling P. Hillerod Sygehus, Helsevej 2, 3500Hillerod, Denmark
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Summary

Quality of life became a paradigm in the medical setting two decades ago. Although ‘humanistic’ psychologists still maintain that what can be specified and measured is precisely what is not quality of life, time has shown that the major components of quality of life in health and disease can be measured with an acceptable internal as well as external validity. Quality of life in randomized clinical trials is now the third dimension to be measured, the other dimensions are efficacy of the drug and adverse drug reactions. Among the major areas of external validity quality of life scales (eg the PCASEE questionnaire and the Psychological General Well-Being Schedule) have discriminating validity (the discrimination between treatments), predictive-validity (the prediction of relapse of illness), and teological validity (defining goal of treatment).

Keywords

health-related quality of lifeinternal and external validitydiscriminating validitypredictive validityteleological validity
Type
Research Article
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 10 , Issue S3: Satellite Symposium to the AEP Congress , 1995 , pp. 83s - 85s
Copyright
Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1995

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