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The relationship of needs and quality of life in persons with schizophrenia living in the community: a Nordic multi-center study
Lund University Hospital.
Umeå University.
Department of Psychiatry Sector West Malmö.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5904-8664
Island.
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2003 (English)In: Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, ISSN 0803-9488, E-ISSN 1502-4725, Vol. 57, no 1, p. 5-11Article in journal, Meeting abstract (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The relationship between needs for care and support and subjective quality of life was investigated in a cross-sectional multi-center study including 418 individuals with schizophrenia from 10 centers in Nordic countries. Needs in 22 domains were investigated by interviews with key workers and their patients using the Camberwell Assessment of Need scale, and quality of life by the Lancashire Quality of Life Profile. The results showed that key workers rated slightly more needs than patients. To have more unmet needs, as rated by both key workers and patients, were correlated to a worse overall subjective quality of life, while met needs showed no such association. A regression analysis, controlling for clinical and social characteristics of the patients, showed more unmet needs to be associated with a worse quality of life, accounting for 6% out of a total of 41% explained variance in subjective quality of life. Regression analyses of the relationship of unmet needs in specific life domains and overall quality of life showed that unmet needs in five domains as perceived by patients accounted for 17% of the explained variance in overall quality of life. More than half of this variance was related to an unmet need in the domain of social relationships. It is concluded that unmet needs are of specific importance in needs assessment and that attention must be paid to separate met needs for care and services from unmet needs, since the latter seem more important to consider in order to improve outcome of interventions with regard to quality of life. Specific attention should in this context also be paid to unmet needs concerning social relationships and problems with accommodation.

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2003. Vol. 57, no 1, p. 5-11
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-12510DOI: 10.1080/08039480310000194ISI: 000182106100002PubMedID: 12745786OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hkr-12510DiVA, id: diva2:736228
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Meeting of the Joint-Committee-of-the-Nordic-Psychiatric-Associations, NOV 08-09, 2002, REYKJAVIK, ICELAND
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