The structure and psychodiagnostic characteristics of the technique evaluating psychotic-addicted quality of life

The article describes the authors' experience of creating a new instrument for evaluating the quality of life of people with endogenous psychoses. This method as a diagnostic instrument was tested on 50 psychiatric patients (30 men and 20 women aged 18-35), staying in the department of out-of-hospital psychiatry of the St.Petersburg V.M. Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute. The instrument consists of 42 closed questions. The methodology of evaluation the psychodependant quality of life is a new measuring tool that can be used in psychiatric practice. It extends the range of psychodiagnostic opportunities for evaluation of the parameters that are very important for psychosocial rehabilitation.