PSYCHIATRIC CONSUMER SURVIVORS QUALITY-OF-LIFE - QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE PERSPECTIVES

In this research, we examined psychiatric consumer/survivors' quality of life using both quantitative and qualitative methods, Based on prev ious research and ecological/empowerment theory, we expected objective indicators of personal empowerment, social support (including negativ e network transactions), housing, acid community integration to be rel ated to consumer/survivors' perceptions of their subjective quality of life. The results provided partial support for our model. Qualitative data tended to confirm the quantitative findings and they provided ad ditional insights leading to a revised ecological/empowerment model of quality of life for psychiatric consumer/survivors.