Measuring patients' views: a bifactor model of distinct patient-reported outcomes in psychosis.

Journal article

BACKGROUND: Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are widely used for evaluating the care of patients with psychosis. Previous studies have reported a considerable overlap in the information captured by measures designed to assess different outcomes. This may impair the validity of PROs and makes an a priori choice of the most appropriate measure difficult when assessing treatment benefits for patients. We aimed to investigate the extent to which four widely established PROs [subjective quality of...

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Authors: Reininghaus, U; McCabe, R; Burns, T; Croudace, T; Priebe, S

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Psychological medicine
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 277-289
• Publication date: 2011-02-01
• DOI: 10.1017/s0033291710000784
• EISSN: 1469-8978
• ISSN: 0033-2917
• Language: English
• Keywords: Community Mental Health Services; Humans; Middle Aged; Adult; Male; Models, Psychological; Psychotic Disorders; Reproducibility of Results; Schizophrenia; England; Patient Satisfaction; Outcome Assessment (Health Care); Factor Analysis, Statistical; Female; Quality of Life