School of Nursing, College of Nursing, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wuxing Street, Taipei 11031, Taiwan.
Director of Nursing, Penghu Branch, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Penghu 88056, Taiwan.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jan 10;19(2):732. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19020732.
Little research has been conducted on the relationship between the five-item Brief Symptom Rating Scale (BSRS-5) and quality of life in patients with mood disorders. The purpose of this study was to investigate potential effects of psychological symptoms on quality of life in patients with psychological disorders. We recruited 124 patients with psychological disorders from a psychological teaching hospital in northern Taiwan. Data were obtained from medical records of all patients with a diagnosis of mood or adjustment disorder. We assessed psychological symptoms on the BSRS-5 and examined quality of life by using the Taiwanese version of the abbreviated World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF). We performed hierarchical linear regression analysis to explore the relationship between psychological symptoms and quality of life. The analysis revealed a significant correlation between the items on the BSRS-5 and WHOQOL and their correlations with the total scores on these assessments ( < 0.01 and < 0.05). Our findings indicated that scores on the BSRS-5 can predict scores on quality of life. This suggests that psychometrically measured psychological symptoms constitute critical determinants of quality of life.
针对心境障碍患者的五分量表简明症状评定量表（BSRS-5）与生活质量之间的关系，目前研究甚少。本研究旨在探讨心理症状对心理障碍患者生活质量的潜在影响。我们从台湾北部一所心理教学医院招募了 124 名心理障碍患者。所有被诊断为心境或适应障碍的患者的病历都提供了数据。我们用 BSRS-5 评估心理症状，并用繁体中文版简明世界卫生组织生活质量量表（WHOQOL-BREF）评估生活质量。我们进行了分层线性回归分析，以探讨心理症状与生活质量之间的关系。分析结果显示，BSRS-5 项目与 WHOQOL 之间存在显著相关性，与这些评估的总分也存在相关性（<0.01 和<0.05）。我们的研究结果表明，BSRS-5 的分数可以预测生活质量的分数。这表明心理测量学上测量的心理症状是生活质量的关键决定因素。
