[Results of quality of life research in chronic psychiatric patients].
This article resumes the most important results of quality of life research on chronic mentally ill patients and argues for the importance of this perspective of evaluation-research. Chronic mentally ill persons experience less quality of life than the general population. Rehabilitation-programs improve the quality of life of chronic mentally ill patients. There is a covariation between better quality of life and length of the interval without being recidivous. Patients of community based programs report a better quality of life than long-term psychiatric inpatients. Finally some open questions and problems concerning quality of life research on the chronically mentally ill are discussed.
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Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik, Heidelberg.
D002908:Chronic Disease; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D011788:Quality of Life; D012803:Sick Role; D012931:Social Environment