Psikiyatride Yaşam Kalitesi
Mehmet Şerif Top, Salih Yaşar Özden, Meltem Efe Sevim
Article No:
3
Article Type :
Research
Life quality concept, developed by social sciences, was first handled in practical medicine in terms of oncology. The nonmedical aspects of psychiatric disorders, though known for many years, had never been entitled under the term "Life Quality". Nowadays many criterion have been improved to scale life quality which has been described by world health organization as "the means by which a person in a whole of his spesific cultural environment and standard of judgement, perceives his condition, related to his aims, expectations, standards and interests". In this article the criterion improved to measure and evaluate life quality have been examined. It has been told in our article that limitations of persons can be found out by evaluating their lıfe qualities and thus they can be helped at least as effective as medical therapy.
Keywords :
Life quality, psychiatry
Dusunen Adam : The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences :
2003;16:18-23
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