Full name of scale |
Lancashire Quality of Life Profile |
Languages |
The LQOLP has been translated to several languages and has shown mostly sound psychometric qualities in different European and North American contexts in terms of test-retest reliability and internal consistency |
French version reference |
Salome, F., Germain, C., Petitjean, F., Demant, J. C., & Boyer, P. (2000, April). Validation of the french version of the Lancashire Quality of Life Profile (LQOLP), a scale evaluating the quality of life in schizophrenic patients. In ANNALES MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGIQUES (Vol. 158, No. 4, pp. 329-334). 120 BLVD SAINT-GERMAIN, 75280 PARIS 06, FRANCE: MASSON EDITEUR. |
Rater |
Clinician-rated |
Training |
No information found |
Utility |
It was derived from Lehman’s quality of life interview. It is used for obtained a detailed quality of life profile. The LQOLP generates a profile of quality of life scores, based on subjective ratings of the domains, as well as several separate well-being assessments and objective information about life circumstances. |
Versions |
A modified version was constructed in which psychometric properties were further explored (Van Nieuwenhuizen, Schene, Koeter, & Huxley, 2001). |
Youth friendly/appropriate |
91 % were willing to be reinterviewed, indicating that they were comfortable with going through the LQOLP interview (Oliver, Huxley, Priebe & Kaiser, 1997) |
Time to complete |
Between 20-45 minutes (depending on the target group and the interviewers’ experiences with the instrument) |
Cost/license |
No information found
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Other information |
The LQOLP can be used with severely ill patients, such as elderly with dementia, and psychotic patients with cognitive deficits. |
Oliver, J. P. J., Huxley, P. J., Priebe, S., & Kaiser, W. (1997). Measuring the quality of life of severely mentally ill people using the Lancashire Quality of Life Profile. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 32(2), 76–83. Follow this link for the article.