Outcome Measure Reports

1. A Review of the Psychometric Properties of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) family of Measures, 2005, Pirkis et al

The Health of the Nation Outcome Scales was developed to routinely measure outcomes for adults with mental illness. Comparable instruments were also developed for children and adolescents (the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents) and older people (the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales 65+). All three are being widely used as outcome measures in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. There is, however, no comprehensive review of these instruments. This paper fills this gap by reviewing the psychometric properties of each.

2. Review of Standardised Measures Used in the National Outcomes and Casemix Collection, 2005, Pirkis et al

This report provides a critical review and evaluation of the standardised measures used to report on Mental Health outcome and casemix data. The measures evaluated in this report include:

• the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS?)
• the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA?)
• the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales 65+ (HoNOS65?+)
• the Life Skills Profile 16 (LSP-16)
• the Resource Utilisation Groups – Activities of Daily Living Scale (RUG-ADL)
• the Children’s Global Assessment Scale (CGAS)
• the Mental Health Inventory (MHI)
• the Behaviour and Symptom Identification Scale 32 (BASIS-32®)
• the Kessler-10 Plus (K-10+); and
• the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ