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Measure for Measure: How do Measures of Quality of Life Compare?
Author(s) -
Perry Jonathan,
Felce David
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
british journal of learning disabilities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 1354-4187
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3156.1995.tb00182.x
Subject(s) - autonomy , scale (ratio) , quality (philosophy) , measure (data warehouse) , quality of life (healthcare) , sample (material) , psychology , applied psychology , gerontology , computer science , medicine , geography , data mining , philosophy , chemistry , cartography , epistemology , chromatography , political science , law , psychotherapist
This paper is intended to provide some guidance to people wishing to monitor quality in small scale community residential settings. It describes the results of a study in which 14 objective quality of life indicators were conducted in a sample of 14 community‐based staffed houses in order to assess the degree of overlap between measures within each of six quality of life domains: activity, autonomy and choice, housing quality, personal development, social and community integration, and social interactions. Overall, there was fairly high overlap within domains. Reasons for the lack of overlap which was sometimes found are discussed.