Simmons S
Department of Health Studies, University of East London, Stratford, U.K.
Int J Nurs Stud. 1994 Apr;31(2):183-93. doi: 10.1016/0020-7489(94)90044-2.
There has been growing interest in the concept and measurement of quality of life in recent years, originally in the field of general health care, and more recently in community mental health. Measures designed to assess quality of life have been used to assess individual clients' problems, to assess the needs of a particular population, or for research purposes. However there is no generally agreed definition of quality of life itself, or of its associated constructs. As a result of this many ways are used to assess quality of life, ranging from those measures which are generally 'objective', using checklists or rating scales, to those which assess quality of life with little or no predetermined structure for the results. The purpose of this selective review is to focus on some of the range of definitions and concepts of quality of life and approaches to its measurement, with a view to illuminating the most appropriate approaches (both for clinical and research purposes) in the field of community care of those with enduring psychiatric illness.
近年来，人们对生活质量的概念和衡量方法的兴趣与日俱增，最初是在普通医疗保健领域，最近则在社区心理健康领域。旨在评估生活质量的测量方法已被用于评估个体客户的问题、特定人群的需求或用于研究目的。然而，对于生活质量本身或其相关概念，并没有普遍认可的定义。因此，人们采用了多种方式来评估生活质量，从那些通常是“客观的”、使用清单或评分量表的测量方法，到那些对结果几乎没有或完全没有预先设定结构的生活质量评估方法。本次选择性综述的目的是聚焦于生活质量的一些定义、概念范围及其测量方法，以期阐明在患有持久性精神疾病者的社区护理领域（包括临床和研究目的）最合适的方法。
