CORE--QUALITY OF LIFE

虽然生活质量/健康服务研究（QOL）实验室共享 儿童权利委员会对身体健康 问题，他们的功能表现，和抑郁症，生活质量实验室是 在更大的社会心理学中研究这些联系是独一无二的。 它们所处的环境。实验室主要关注 “日常”情感，社会和行为过程， 患有慢性内科疾病和精神疾病并受其影响。的 QOL实验室试图通过检查来阐明这些关系的动态 他们的时间变异性，在两个较长的持续时间， 纵向研究，也更短（每周，每天，甚至在- 天）时间段。QOL实验室的总体目标是：（I） 促进对身心健康之间相互关系的研究， 功能性残疾，以及后期情感和心理社会过程 生活;（2）调查精神和身体健康的表现 问题及其对老年人日常生活的影响;（3） 研究与医疗保健提供系统的交易如何影响和 受体弱长者的精神健康及生活质素影响 （4）开发和完善最佳的方法和模型， 适合研究这些问题。这些广泛的目标将在 一系列活动，研究不同群体的生活质量， 老年患者医疗这些活动涉及若干具体问题， 短期目标：（1）区分事件和环境 长期患病的老年人的生活背景， 积极情绪和消极情绪的表现;（2）检查 日常生活质量的内在和环境来源 长期患病的老年人，并确定这些方面的质量， 生活影响对继续生活价值的判断;（3）澄清 疾病症状和功能残疾在一般情况下的作用 不同老年人内科疾病与抑郁症的关系 （4）制定日常和内部学习的方法- 疼痛、抑郁和其他医学疾病影响的日变化 作为个人和社会活动和事件的函数，以及（5） 研究抑郁和感知生活质量对体弱多病患者的影响 老年人利用保健服务及其医疗费用 消费

While the Quality of Life/Health Services Research (QOL) Laboratory shares the overall CRC's concern with associations among physical health problems, their functional manifestations, and depression, the QOL Lab is unique in examining these associations within the larger psychosocial context in which they are embedded. The laboratory focuses largely on "everyday" affective, social and behavioral processes in terms of how they affect and are affected by chronic medical and psychiatric disorders. The QOL Lab seeks to elucidate the dynamic of these relationships by examining their temporal variability, over both the longer durations of most longitudinal research and also shorter (weekly, daily, and even within- day) time periods. The overarching goals of the QOL Laboratory are: (I) to stimulate research on interrelationships among physical and mental health, functional disability, and affective and psychosocial processes in late life; (2) to investigate the manifestations of mental and physical health problems and their effects upon the daily lives of older adults; (3) to examine how transactions with the health care delivery system affect and are affected by mental health and quality of life of frail elderly persons, and (4) to develop and refine methods and models that are best suited to the study of these issues. These broad aims will be pursued in a series of activities examining quality of life among diverse groups of elderly medical patients. These activities address several specific, short-term objectives: (1) to differentiate events and environmental contexts of chronically ill elders' lives that are associated with several manifestations of positive emotions and negative emotions; (2) to examine intrapersonal and environmental sources of quality of everyday life of chronically ill elders and to determine how these facets of quality of life affect judgments of the worth of continued living; (3) to clarify the roles of illness symptoms and functional disability in the general association between medical illness and depression in diverse elderly medical populations; (4) to develop methods for studying daily and within- day variability in pain, depression and other effects of medical illness as a function of personal and social activities and events, and (5) to examine effects of depression and perceived quality of life upon frail older persons' utilization of health services and consequent medical cost consumption.