Dialog+ Measuring What Matters To You (patient information leaflet)
DIALOG+ is designed to measure how you rate your quality of life and your experience of the care you receive. Your responses can help us to make sure we talk about what matters to you.
The DIALOG+ form is very simple and it only has 11 questions. The first eight questions cover different areas of your life, and the last three are about your treatment.
DIALOG+ questions cover your satisfaction with:
Your mental health
Your physical health
With your job situation
Your accommodation
Your leisure activities
Your friendships
Your partner/family
Your personal safety
Your medication
The practical help you receive
Consultations with mental health professionals
You don’t need to write out long responses or give too much detail. Just choose a number from 1 to 7 that best matches how you feel, with one being totally dissatisfied and seven being totally satisfied.
DIALOG+ is a personal measure. There are no wrong answers so just try to be as honest as you can. By filling in your answers at the beginning of your care, you can get a really good idea of where you are starting from in terms of quality of life.
Filling them in again later, during or at the end of your treatment, can be a useful record of where you are making progress and how well your treatment is working for you.
Any positive change is an achievement and can give you confidence. If there is little change, or your ratings get lower, we might use this as a starting point to discuss making some changes to your treatment.
By measuring quality of life, and quality of care over time, you and your clinician can work together towards making a meaningful and lasting difference to your wellbeing.
Remember you can ask your clinicians about how you can use DIALOG+ as a part of your care, at any time.
