Table 3 Completion of relevant measures and explanation of routine clinical assessment battery

Routine outcomes

Life Skills Profile (LSP-16)^a

X

•These measures form part of the routine assessment battery to be completed with all consumers residing at the Community Care Units.

•The battery was developed on the basis of the clinical experience and knowledge at the Coorparoo CCU, with extensive staff consultation.

•Standardisation of the assessment process provides an opportunity to better evaluate and compare consumer outcomes, both at the individual and group level.

•Whilst there many other relevant measures, the battery chosen aims to broadly cover relevant domains in a manner that does not place excessive demands on consumers, carers and staff.

•There will not be an opportunity to change the components of the battery for the duration of the CCU evaluation project. For this reason, it will be critical to find ways in which the chosen measures can be utilised to enhance the quality and experience of care at the units.

•It is expected that the measures completed by carers and consumers will form the basis of a subsequent discussion with members of the clinical team.

•It is likely that multiple team members may be present at the time a given measure is collected given the multi-disciplinary nature of the work undertaken at the CCUs.

•The Principle Service Provider role under both the integrated and clinical staffing models is performed only by clinical staff members.

•For the purposes of this study a Carer is considered to be a person (e.g. family member or friend) who the Consumer nominates as having a significant unpaid caring role for them.

Mental Health Inventory (MHI)^b

X

Health of the Nation Outcome Scale (HoNOS)^a

X

Symptom measures

Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)^c

X

Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS)^d

X

Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS)^d

X

Cognitive

Allen’s Cognitive Levels (ACL)^d

X

Social

Social Functioning Scale (SFS)^c

X

Functional

Perceive Recall Plan & Perform System of Task Analysis (PRPP)^d

X

Recovery

Stages of Recovery Instrument (STORI-30)^b

X

Carer burden

Burden Assessment Scale (BAS)^b

X

Adult Carer Quality of Life (AC-QoL)^b

X