Associations of Quality of Life with Service Satisfaction in Psychotic Patients: A Meta-Analysis

Eleni Petkari and Jakob Pietschnig

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 8, 1-17

Abstract: Background: Quality of life (QoL) has gained increasing attention as a desired outcome of psychosocial treatments targeting psychotic patients. Yet, the relationship between the patients’ satisfaction with services and QoL has not been clearly established, perhaps due to the multidimensionality of the QoL concept and the variability in its assessment. Aim: This is the first systematic meta-analysis of all available evidence assessing the relationship between QoL and service satisfaction. Methods: In all, 19 studies reporting data of 21 independent samples (N = 5,337) were included in the present meta-analysis. In moderator analyses, effects of age, sex, diagnoses (schizophrenia vs. other psychoses), treatment context (inpatients vs. outpatients), study design (cross-sectional vs. longitudinal), and QoL domain (subjective vs. health-related) were examined. Results: Analyses revealed a highly significant medium-sized effect (r = .30, p

Date: 2015
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