Cognitive interview-based validation of the FQL-SV.
Research type
Research Study
Full title
How do inpatients in UK secure services comprehend the Forensic Inpatient Quality of Life Questionnaire: Short Version (FQL-SV)? Findings from a cognitive interview study.
IRAS ID
240260
Contact name
Christopher Hartwright
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Cardiff University
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
Brief Summary of Proposal in Lay Terms:
Some people with mental health problems present with 'challenging behaviour'. In other words, they behave in ways that put themselves or others in danger. They may be cared for in secure hospitals and experience 'restrictive practices'. For example, being held down to stop them from hurting themselves or others. An approach called Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) was set up to help these people by using more proactive, preventative approaches to reducing 'challenging behaviour', minimising the use of 'restrictive practices'. PBS does this by helping people to have a better quality of life. The problem is, we do not know if PBS improves quality of life because we do not have a good way of asking these people about it. We think a good way to ask would be through a questionnaire. We know of some questionnaires that look as if they could be useful for this, but they have not yet been used with people who are cared for in secure hospitals in the UK. We hope to try one of these questionnaires with 20 secure hospital patients to see if they can understand the questions they are being asked in the way that we would hope them to. If they can, we hope that secure hospitals will be able to use the questionnaire with their patients to ask about quality of life and to check that PBS is working in the way it should.(Flesch Index: 65.6)
REC name
Wales REC 3
REC reference
18/WA/0163
Date of REC Opinion
2 Jul 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion