tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học:" A review of the psychometric properties of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) family of measures"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học đề tài : A review of the psychometric properties of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) family of measures | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Review Open Access A review of the psychometric properties of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales HoNOS family of measures Jane E Pirkis 1 Philip M Burgess2 Pia K Kirk2 Sarity Dodson1 Tim J Coombs3 and Michelle K Williamson1 Address 1School of Population Health The University of Melbourne Melbourne Australia 2School of Population Health The University of Queensland Brisbane Australia and 3New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry Sydney Australia Email Jane E Pirkis - Philip M Burgess - Pia K Kirk - piakirk@ Sarity Dodson - Tim J Coombs - timcoombs@ Michelle K Williamson - Corresponding author Published 28 November 2005 Received 04 November 2005 . J .. IIOZ U77 vnr 7 Accepted 28 November 2005 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2005 3 76 doi 1477-7525-3-76 This article is available from http content 3 1 76 2005 Pirkis et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The Health of the Nation Outcome Scales was developed to routinely measure outcomes for adults with mental illness. Comparable instruments were also developed for children and adolescents the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents and older people the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales 65 . All three are being widely used as outcome measures in the United Kingdom Australia and New Zealand. There is however no comprehensive review of these instruments. This paper fills this gap by reviewing the psychometric properties of each. Method Articles and reports relating to the instruments were