The Structure and Psychodiagnostic Characteristics of the Technique Evaluating Psychotic-addicted Quality of Life

Authors

  • G. V. Burkovsky Author
  • N. G. Neznanov Author
  • A. P. Kotsubinsky Author

Abstract

The article describes the authors' experience of creating a new instrument for evaluating the quality of life of people with endogenous psychoses. This method as a diagnostic instrument was tested on 50 psychiatric patients (30 men and 20 women aged 18–35), staying in the department of out-of-hospital psychiatry of the St.Petersburg V.M. Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute. The instrument consists of 42 closed questions. The methodology of evaluation the psychodependant quality of life is a new measuring tool that can be used in psychiatric practice. It extends the range of psychodiagnostic opportunities for evaluation of the parameters that are very important for psychosocial rehabilitation.

Author Biographies

  • G. V. Burkovsky

    Candidate of psychological sciences, senior researcher at the Department of community psychiatry

  • N. G. Neznanov
    Doctor of medical sciences, professor, director
  • A. P. Kotsubinsky

    Doctor of medical sciences, professor, chief researcher at the Department of community psychiatry

Issue

No. 4 (2011)

Section

Bulletin of the South Ural State University. Series “Psychology” includes the following sections: