Original scientific paper
ACTION RESEARCH OF LIFE QUALITY OF PERSONS WITH MENTAL DISORDERS IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
Aleksandar Halmi
; Faculty of Law, Zagreb
Abstract
The action research develops very fast both abroad and in Croatia. Numerous contemporary social problems and present consciousness on the possibilities of an active relationship towards them have resulted in the need of active searching after the ways of discovering and controlling these areas of social reality, which significantly differ from social standards thus gaining attention and interest of the social community. Since social problems are phenomena that should be changed, and the action researches are theoretical and methodological procedure for introducing changes into specific spatially and temporally defined areas of social reality (families and social groups within the micro–sociological framework, i.e. local communities), we will here present the application of an action research on the quality of life of persons with various mental disorders in the Republic of Croatia. In this paper, the authors present a self–guided instrument called the Questionaire of the Quality of Life. This instrument evaluates the subjective perceptions of the quality of life in seven areas of life which are covered by 24 questions. The results of the confirmative factor analysis point at a seven factor structure with a good index of adaptation of manifent variables with latent dimensions. The factor points also point at significant coefficients of the correlation between the social functioning of clients and a specific level of satisfaction with various services in local communities in the Republic of Croatia.
Keywords
action research; mental disorders; quality of life; life satisfaction; measuring instruments
Hrčak ID:
139458
URI
Publication date:
15.1.2002.
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