[Can quality of life be measured? Problems of quantitative and possibilities for qualitative assessment of quality of life in psychiatry].
In a critical review of the theoretical background and recent empirical results of quality of life research in psychiatry the problems of a onesided quantitative methodological orientation will be discussed. For the surmounting of the theoretical difficulties a dynamic model of subjective quality of life in psychiatry will be presented and according to this model the necessity of a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods will be suggested.
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Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Abteilung Psychiatrische Soziologie, Mannheim.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012106:Research; D012931:Social Environment