Abstract
Interest in assessing the quality of life of individuals with severe psychiatric disorders has grown within recent years [1,2,3]. The anticipation of quality of life research is that it will provide relevant information to assist in treatment planning and service evaluation. Increasingly, the goal of mental health services is to improve sufferers' quality of life as well as effecting biological interventions and ameliorating illness symptoms [4]. Subjective well-being and quality of life constitute the ultimate humanitarian goals for services to severely mentally disordered adults. Mental health services also endeavour to be reflective of the needs of sufferers and their families by eliciting information from service consumers and involving them in therapeutic decision making. Life satisfaction assessments offer a means for sufferers to express how they perceive their well-being, what they value as important and what they want.
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