Measuring subjective quality of life among users of mental health services in Norway

Contact and collaboration with Peter over more than two decades has led to the use of MANSA as a measure of quality of life of several thousand patients in some Norwegian studies: a study of service users of community mental health centres, a national survey of outpatients in mental health services, and a study of service users of Assertive Community Treatment teams. Research in Norway has shown that MANSA has adequate measurement properties, that quality of life varies among subgroups of service users, that quality of life is associated with aspects of service delivery, and that quality of life in specific life domains are related to specific types of practical and social functioning.