Schel S H H, Bouman Y H A, Braun P C, Bulten B H
Tijdschr Psychiatr. 2016;58(12):863-871.
Quality of life (QoL) is an important issue in long term forensic psychiatric care (LFPC).
AIM: To provide an overview of the knowledge that has been obtained over the last few years about patients' QoL in LFPC.
METHOD: The quality of life in LFPC has been researched every year since 2007. The research has involved the use of the Forensic Inpatient Quality of Life Questionnaire (FQL) which was developed specifically for patients in LFPC. During the longitudinal research project several studies were conducted in order to identify some of the factors that possibly define patients' QoL.
RESULTS: The QoL of patients in LFPC seems to depend less on patient characteristics and more on the environmental circumstances and on the degree to which the patients have accepted these circumstances. Research has also shown that professional carers do not seem to be sufficiently aware of the QoL of their patients.
CONCLUSION: The fact that it is mainly environmental circumstances that are being associated with QoL offers a positive perspective on improving/optimizing QoL of patients in LFPC. Professional carers could, for instance, be trained to discuss QoL with their patients in a structured manner. This would enable carers to identify potential aspects that require further improvement and to optimise these aspects in discussion with their patients.
生活质量（QoL）是长期法医精神病护理（LFPC）中的一个重要问题。
概述过去几年中关于LFPC患者生活质量所获得的知识。
自2007年以来，每年都对LFPC中的生活质量进行研究。该研究使用了专门为LFPC患者开发的法医住院患者生活质量问卷（FQL）。在纵向研究项目中，进行了几项研究，以确定一些可能定义患者生活质量的因素。
LFPC患者的生活质量似乎较少依赖于患者特征，而更多地取决于环境情况以及患者接受这些情况的程度。研究还表明，专业护理人员似乎没有充分意识到其患者的生活质量。
主要是环境情况与生活质量相关这一事实为改善/优化LFPC患者的生活质量提供了积极的前景。例如，可以培训专业护理人员以结构化的方式与患者讨论生活质量。这将使护理人员能够识别需要进一步改善的潜在方面，并在与患者的讨论中优化这些方面。
