The German Adaptation of the Verona Service Satisfaction Scale: An Instrument for @entity1 ' Satisfaction with Mental Health Care. AIM: Measuring effectiveness and quality of care became an important topic in psychiatry. Considering that objective criteria were not sufficient in the past, the subjective perspective gained growing interest. Client satisfaction is an important variable to evaluate @entity146 care. @entity1 satisfaction can influence treatment outcome as well as it determines the @entity146 system itself. METHOD: The Italian original version of the Verona Service Satisfaction Scale (VSSS-54) was translated and adapted to the German language. The instrument has been tested in the project "Cost-effectiveness of @entity146 ". The process of development, the psychometric testing and the practical application of the German version will be presented in this paper. Additional advantages and disadvantages are discussed. RESULTS: As psychometric properties of the instrument correspond to conventional standards, they are comparable with the results of an international study. The drop out of items cannot be controlled, therefore analysing the data is difficult. CONCLUSION: Although the VSSS shows various methodological limitations, it is at the moment an appropriate instrument for measuring @entity1 satisfaction in the German language.

[The German adaptation of the Verona Service Satisfaction Scale: an instrument for XXXX ' satisfaction with mental health care].

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Patients', 'patient', 'Patient'] @entity146 :: ('MESH:D001523', 'Disease') :: ['psychiatric', 'psychiatric service systems']
@entity1 :: (9606,Species) :: ['patients']
