TY - JOUR
T1 - Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL)
T2 - A new generic self-reported outcome measure for use with people experiencing mental health difficulties
AU - the ReQoL Scientific Group
AU - Keetharuth, Anju Devianee
AU - Brazier, John
AU - Connell, Janice
AU - Bjorner, Jakob Bue
AU - Carlton, Jill
AU - Buck, Elizabeth Taylor
AU - Ricketts, Thomas
AU - McKendrick, Kirsty
AU - Browne, John
AU - Croudace, Tim
AU - Barkham, Michael
AU - Blenkiron, Paul
AU - Boardman, Jed
AU - Everett, Suzanne Heywood
AU - Grundy, Andrew
AU - Hanlon, Rob
AU - Hemmingfield, Jo
AU - Papadopoulos, Andrew
AU - Robotham, Dan
AU - Rose, Diana
AU - Slade, Mike
PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - BackgroundOutcome measures for mental health services need to adopt a service-user recovery focus.AimsTo develop and validate a 10- and 20-item self-report recovery focused quality of life outcome measure named Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL).MethodQualitative methods for item development and initial testing, and quantitative methods for item reduction and scale construction were used. Data from >6500 service users were factor analysed and item response theory models employed to inform item selection. The measures were tested for reliability, validity and responsiveness.ResultsReQoL-10 and ReQoL-20 contain positively and negatively worded items covering seven themes: activity, hope, belonging and relationships, self-perception, well-being, autonomy, and physical health. Both versions achieved acceptable internal consistency, test-retest reliability (>0.85), known-group differences, convergence with related measures, and were responsive over time (standardised response mean (SRM) > 0.4). They performed marginally better than the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale and markedly better than the EQ-5D.ConclusionsBoth versions are appropriate for measuring service-user recovery-focused quality of life outcomes. Declaration of interest M.B. and J.Co. were members of the research group that developed the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (CORE) outcome measures.
AB - BackgroundOutcome measures for mental health services need to adopt a service-user recovery focus.AimsTo develop and validate a 10- and 20-item self-report recovery focused quality of life outcome measure named Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL).MethodQualitative methods for item development and initial testing, and quantitative methods for item reduction and scale construction were used. Data from >6500 service users were factor analysed and item response theory models employed to inform item selection. The measures were tested for reliability, validity and responsiveness.ResultsReQoL-10 and ReQoL-20 contain positively and negatively worded items covering seven themes: activity, hope, belonging and relationships, self-perception, well-being, autonomy, and physical health. Both versions achieved acceptable internal consistency, test-retest reliability (>0.85), known-group differences, convergence with related measures, and were responsive over time (standardised response mean (SRM) > 0.4). They performed marginally better than the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale and markedly better than the EQ-5D.ConclusionsBoth versions are appropriate for measuring service-user recovery-focused quality of life outcomes. Declaration of interest M.B. and J.Co. were members of the research group that developed the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (CORE) outcome measures.
U2 - 10.1192/bjp.2017.10
DO - 10.1192/bjp.2017.10
M3 - Article
C2 - 29433611
AN - SCOPUS:85043456406
SN - 0007-1250
VL - 212
SP - 42
EP - 49
JO - British Journal of Psychiatry
JF - British Journal of Psychiatry
IS - 1
ER -
