Health-related quality of life of patients in opioid substitution treatment in Germany
L Strada, B Schulte, CS Schmidt, U Verthein, J Reimer · Suchttherapie · 2015 · Heft 08
Bibliografische Angaben
Zusammenfassung
Introduction: Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is an important treatment outcome criterion in chronic diseases. While the fields of medicine and mental health have embraced HRQOL as a valuable source of information in treatment and research, the field of addiction is lagging behind in this respect. Research on HRQOL in drug users has only been emerging in the past 10 years and the systematic use of HRQOL measures in clinical practice is scarce. Opioid substitution treatment (OST), the standard treatment for opioid dependence, typically measures its quality and treatment success by means of objective parame…