Wilson And Cleary Model: How Is Your Quality Of Life

How is your quality of life? This is a question that many clinicians strive to answer with all patients across the continuum from acute to chronically ill. Clinicians have an insatiable drive for the answers about the clinical judgments they make each day. Moreover, clinicians hold very deep convictions based on the training and experience that can only be improved using convincing data or information. Clinical outcome is a health state of particular patients. Furthermore, clinical outcome is broadly agreed to measurable changes in the quality of life or health that result from an individuals ' care. Overall, quality of life measures are important across life span whether an individual is healthy, suffers from a chronic illness or approaching …show more content…
A practical conceptual framework to deliver a greater understanding of the concept of quality of life is the revised Wilson and Cleary model. The model is developed to initially generate defining domains of quality of life. Consequently, the Wilson and Cleary model is one of the most frequently used health related quality of life models (Bakas, T., McLennon, S., Carpenter, J., Buelow, J., Otte, J. Hanna, K., Ellett, K. Hadler, K. and Welch, J., 2012). The model describe the interrelationships among determinants that relate to health related quality of life. In addition, the authors of the model present it as taxonomy of patient outcomes that link the characteristics of the individual to the characteristics of the environment (Saban, K., Penckofer, S., Androwich, I. & Bryant, F., 2007). The model suggests a fundamental link between five determinants of overall health-related quality of life. The model measures begin with the most basic objective information the biological and physiological function. This first stage in the model represent assessment of an individual’s health by measurements such as lab testing, vital signs and physical examination (Wilson & Cleary, 1996). Secondly, shifting from biological and physiological is symptom status which involves the subjective symptoms the patient experience …show more content…
The most commonly used patient reported outcome questionnaires assess one of the following: symptoms and impairments, functioning or disability, wellness or health, or health-related quality of life (Victorson, D., 2014). Therefore, in a system of care unit, quality of life questionnaires purport to assess objective, functioning, subjective wellbeing, or both (Muldoon, M., Barger, S., Flory, J., Manuck, S.,