Table 1 Operationalisation of the measurements
Domain | Variable | Instrument | Question | Scores |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Quality of life | Quality of life | MANSA | 12 subjective questions Total mean score | 0 = low to average scores (scores 4 or lower) 1 = high scores (scores higher than 4) |
Daily life | Living situation | MANSA | With whom do you live? | 0 = independent living (alone, with a partner, with peers) 1 = living with (foster) family (with own parents, with foster parents, with another family) 2 = residential care facilities (judicial institutions, sheltered housing, psychiatric hospitals, residential care) |
Structured activities | MANSA | What is your work situation? | 0 = no structured activities (unemployment, work in prison, intention of new studies in the future) 1 = structured activities (education, work, sheltered employment, volunteer work) | |
Social security benefits | MANSA | Do you receive social security benefits? | 0 = no social security benefits 1 = social security benefits | |
Social life | Intimate relationship at the time of the FU-study | Interview | Do you have a relationship at this time? | 0 = no 1 = yes |
Intimate relationship after discharge | Interview | Have you had (other) relationships since your discharge from the hospital? | 0 = no 1 = yes | |
Number of close friends | ASR | Approximately how many close friends do you have? (Do not include family members) | 0 = none 1 = one to three 2 = four or more | |
Delinquent peers | Interview | Did one of your friends have contact with police or justice authorities in the past year? | 0 = no 1 = yes | |
Quality relationship with mother | ASR | Compared with others, how well do you get along with your mother? | 0 = worse than average 1 = average 2 = better than average | |
Quality relationship with father | ASR | Compared with others, how well do you get along with your father? | 0 = worse than average 1 = average 2 = better than average | |
Problems | Problem behaviour | ASR | Internalising and externalising syndrome scales | 0 = no problems (raw scores in the normal range) 1 = problems (raw scores in the borderline or clinical range) |
Debts | Interview | Do you have debts at this moment? | 0 = no 1 = yes | |
Substance abuse | Substance use questionnaire | On how many weekdays (Monday to Thursday) do you usually drink alcohol? On how many of the weekend days (Friday to Sunday) do you usually drink alcohol? How often have you used cannabis (marijuana) or hash in the last 12 months? How often have you used cocaine (coke or white) or heroin (horse, smack, or brown) in the past 12 months? How often have you used XTC (ecstasy, MDMA), magic mushrooms, amphetamines (uppers, pep, or speed), or GHB in the past 12 months? | 0 = no (soft drug and alcohol use less than 4 days a week, and hard drug use less than 2 days a week) 1 = yes (soft drug or alcohol use at least 4 days a week, and/or hard drug use more than 2 days a week) 999 = missing (alcohol, soft drug and/or hard drug use missing and the other variable(s) scored no) | |
Professional support | Interview | Do you receive any professional support at this time? | 0 = no 1 = yes | |
Delinquency | Offences after discharge | Interview | Have you committed one or more offences after discharge for which you were or were not convicted, or which are unknown to the police? | 0 = no 1 = yes |
Violent offencesa after discharge | Interview | If yes, which type of offence(s) did you commit? | 0 = no violent offences 1 = one or more violent offences | |
Non-violent offencesa after discharge | Interview | If yes, which type of offence(s) did you commit? | 0 = no non-violent offences 1 = one or more non-violent offences |