Mental health outcome measures in the Australian context: what is the problem represented to be?

BMC Psychiatry

Table 4 Descriptive characteristics of mental health outcome measures in Australia

	Outcome measure	State/ territory	Rater	Overarching constructs	No. of core items
Children and adolescents	HoNOSCA	All	Clinician	Range of behavioural, symptomatic, social and impairment domains	15
	CGAS	All	Clinician	Dysfunction	1
	SDQ	All	Consumer and/ or parent	Behaviours, emotions and relationships	25
Adults	HoNOS	All	Clinician	Mental health and social functioning	12
	LSP-16	All	Clinician	Disability	16
	MHI	Qld	Consumer	Psychological distress and well-being	38
	BASIS-32	Vic, Tas, ACT	Consumer	Symptom and problem difficulty	32
	K-10+	NSW, WA, SA, NT	Consumer	Non-specific psychological distress	10
Older adults	HoNOS65+	All	Clinician	Mental health and social functioning	12
	LSP-16	All	Clinician	Disability	16
	MHI	Qld	Consumer	Psychological distress and well-being	38
	BASIS-32	Vic, Tas, ACT	Consumer	Symptom and problem difficulty	32
	K-10+	NSW, WA, SA, NT	Consumer	Non-specific psychological distress	10

NSW, New South Wales; Vic, Victoria; Qld, Queensland; WA, Western Australia; SA, South Australia; Tas, Tasmania; ACT, Australian Capital Territory; NT, Northern Territory

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