Official Dutch version of the English Recovering Quality of Life (ReQol) Questionnaire

ReQoL was developed by a Scientific Group led from The University of Sheffield and funded by the Department of Health Policy Research Programme in England for use in the NHS.

ReQoL is a new Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) that has been developed to assess the quality of life for people with different mental health conditions. A PROM is a questionnaire that patients complete about their health. Questionnaires like this are important as they are used in helping to decide what support or services people receive and to measure and improve the quality of care that service users receive.

There are two versions of the ReQoL measures. ReQoL-10 contains 10 mental health items and ReQoL-20 contains 20 mental health items. Both versions contain one physical health question. The measures are suitable for use with service users aged 16 and over. They are suitable for use across all mental health populations including common mental health problems, severe and complex and psychotic disorders (clusters 1-17), but not dementia or learning disabilities.

Now that the emergence of the recovery movement has led to the development of the Recovering Quality of Life Questionnaire (ReQoL) in the UK, this study aims to describe and evaluate the Dutch translation. Together with Dutch researchers of Erasmus and Leiden University, and licensed by the Sheffield and Oxford ReQol group, we developed the official Dutch version of this questionnaire.