ReQoL News – August 2020
26th August 2020
This article brings you the latest news on the Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL) measure. A lot has been happening on the ReQoL recently and we’re keen to provide a short update on some of the most recent activity.
The ReQoL is a Patient Reported Outcome which has been developed to assess the quality of life for people with different mental health conditions.
ReQoL-20 chosen by international panel of experts for the new set of standards to measure and improve psychotic disorders globally
The International Consortium for Health Outcome Measurement (ICHOM) have an
nounced the release of their new standard set of measures for Psychotic Disorders. As part of this new standard set, the Recovering Quality of Life outcome questionnaire (ReQoL-20) has been chosen as the measure for tracking 3 aspects of psychotic disorders – Quality of Life, Personal recovery, and Positive and negative symptoms.
The ICHOM Standard Set for Psychotic Disorders is the result of hard work by an international group (from Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia) of leading psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health experts, measurement experts, and service user experts. The new standard set represents the outcomes that matter most to adults and adolescents (age 12 upwards) with psychosis. This marks an important step towards promoting data quality and availability whilst strengthening mental health care for this group.
ReQoL now included in the National Clinical Content Repository to help further support mental health conditions and the collection of national data-sets from NHS trusts all around the UK
In the spring of 2019, our team was approached by the Copyright Licensi
ng Service of the National Clinical Content Repository, operated by NHS Digital to enquire about entering a licence for two of our measures, the Versus Arthritis Musculoskeletal Health Questionnaire (MSK-HQ) and the Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL) Questionnaire.
The main aim of the library is to make clinical assessment tools and outcome measures, easier to sublicense and implement within routine healthcare and to ensure the collection of national data-sets from NHS trusts all around the UK. The measures are respectively in the Community Service and Mental Health Data Sets. The National Data Sets gather experimental statistics that are compiled into reports (CSDS and MHSMS) which help inform public policy choices in health and social care. The impact of our measures on the health and wealth of society is clearly represented by the choice by NHS England to include them in their toolbox.
To date this has allowed a number of sub licences to be concluded and they represent a range of NHS Trusts, Charities or Social Enterprises or Community Interest Companies. We are pleased to report that the logistics of collaborating with a large organisation to sublicense on our behalf have worked very well.
ReQoL Translation Library extended, further supporting mental health conditions on a global scale
The translation library of the ReQoL-20 and ReQoL-10 is steadily growing, with a total number of 18 country specific versions of the questionnaire, 4 years after the COA was developed. 10 languages have been fully validated by our team of associates and are available with a Certificate of Translation, having followed the translation methodology recommended by ISPOR Guidelines, which includes Cognitive Debriefing on 5 participants with any type of mental health condition. The remaining 8 languages were kindly provided by different teams of academics who demonstrated interest in using and translating the ReQoL.
The most recent addition into our library has been Dutch for the Netherlands, validated and certified by OUI with the kind contribution of B.C. van Aken (Erasmus University, the Netherlands), Prof. E. de Beurs (Leiden University, the Netherlands), Prof. C.L. Mulder(Erasmus University, the Netherlands), Prof. C.M. van der Feltz-Cornelis (University of York, UK).
A full list of translations are available through our website.
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