Life Skills Profile (LSP)

Full name of scale

Life Skills Profile

Languages

English

Rater

Clinician-rated (LSp16) and Family-Rated (LS20)

LSP39 was designed to be used by professionals and non-professionals

Life skills 20 is family-rated

Training

No information found

Utility

It is used to measure the functioning aspects ('life skills') that affect the lifestyle of an individual with a mental health condition living in the community or a care facility.

Versions

• LSP39; original version designed by a team of clinical researchers in Sydney. The goal was to create a brief, specific, and jargon-free scale to assess a consumer's abilities with respect to basic life skills.
• LSP20; This version comprises 20 items and retains the five original dimensions. It was suggested by Trauer and its properties reported in Rosen et al. (2001)
• LSP16; revised version. The reduction in items aimed to minimize the rating burden on clinicians when the measure is used in conjunction with the Health of the Nation Outcome Scale (HoNOS). It is completely included in the LSP-20. The LSP-16 would be a suitable instrument to use with populations in which psychosis was absent or uncommon, but the LSP-20 when psychosis is more prevalent.

Time to complete

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Cost/license

Open access. LSP16 can be found at: https://www.amhocn.org/sites/default/files/publication_files/life_skills_profile_-16.pdf