Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL): Development of a brief generic mental health recovery patient reported outcome measure
IRAS ID
157888
Contact name
John E Brazier
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Sheffield
Research summary
Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are a means of collecting information on the effectiveness of care delivered to NHS patients as perceived by the patients themselves. At present PROMs are being routinely collected for a handful of surgical interventions with plans to extending it into further areas including long term conditions in the future with a view to improving services There is consensus that there is currently no PROM that adequately measures the quality of life themes that matter to people with mental health conditions. This study is financed by the Department of Health and at the end two PROMs on recovery and quality of life (ReQoL) will be produced. One version will be long with about 30 questions and the shorter version to be used in routine practice is likely to contain a maximum of 10 questions. Both versions can be used with adult service users with a number of mental health problems with the exception of dementia. In a previous study the domains that matter to people with mental health conditions are: wellbeing and ill-being; belonging and relationships; control, choice and autonomy; activity; hope and hopelessness; self-perception and; physical health. Questions will be generated for each of these domains. The study will interview service users (individual interviews and focus groups) for their feedback on the proposed questions which will be used in refining the questions for the final outcome measures. In the subsequent stages participants from a number of settings will be asked to fill in the questions in the long version of the ReQoL measure and the data will be used to produce the shorter version. Finally participants will fill in the measure so that it can be validated for use with people with different mental health conditions.
REC name
West Midlands - Edgbaston Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/WM/1062
Date of REC Opinion
11 Jul 2014
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion