Visotsky St. 4, apt.268, Dniepropetrovsk, 320080, UKRAINE, Phone: +38(0562)326071
mail to: Svetlana Pkhidenko

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Dniepropetrovsk Association of the Quality of Human Life (DAQHL) was founded on 19 March 1997 in Dniepropetrovsk, Ukraine.

Dniepropetrovsk Association of the Quality of Human Life is a non-profit voluntary non-government organisation in the field of the health-related Quality of Life. Certificate of the Statute of the DAQHL is N113, 25.06.97. The endorsement of the Statute of the DAQHL was at the First General Meeting on 19 March 1997.

The General Meeting is the Supreme Association’s Organ. Sixteen doctors, psychologists, sociologists and ecologists are members of this association. Svetlana Pkhidenko, M.D, Ph.D., Associate Professor is the President of Dniepropetrovsk Association of the Quality of Human Life. At present the Co-ordination Council realises the leadership of the Association. The Co-ordination Council includes 6 persons who carry out the organisation work, research work, social charity programs, public relations.

The main aim of the Dniepropetrovsk Association of the Quality of Human Life is the medical research work for the assessment of the quality of human life in Ukraine.
The aims of our association are the participation in measures of:

• health care;
• charity assistance;
• protection of the environment;
• realisation of the social initiatives;
• educational programs for different groups of the population;
• informational exchange;
• humanitarian actions, which promote to improve the quality of life of the citizens of the Ukraine and democratisation of the Ukrainian society.

The main tasks of the Dniepropetrovsk Association of the Quality of Human Life are:

• scientific study of the quality of life of the different social groups including a psychiatric patients;
• translation of the existing QOL instruments into Ukrainian, cultural adaptation and validation of the existing QOL instruments;
• elaboration of the national versions of the methods of QOL assessment;
• collaboration with non-government and philanthropy organisations;
• informational exchange, creation of the regional information bank of the QOL;
• establishment, development and support of international science and business contacts with scientists who are interested in research of the quality of life in society and psychiatrical practice.

Fields of interests of our research team also include:

• assessment of the quality of life (QoL) in psychiatrical practice and medical care;
• participation in charity programs for social support of the psychiatrical patients;
• publication and distribution of the special literature for psychiatrical patients about mentally diseases and their therapy.

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The Association carries out the research of the quality of life in schizophrenia patients and elaborate the programs of prevention of long term disability.
Dr. S. Pkhidenko personally won a grant (1996 - 97) from the International Renaissance Foundation to perform research on the attitude of teenagers towards alcohol and substance abuse in the Dniepropetrovsk Region of Ukraine. We prepared the program of early prevention of the substance abuse.
The organisation took part in the International Conference "Human Rights for Persons with Mental Handicaps" (Prague, Czech republic, Sept. 7-12, 1997).
Our association collaborates with the International Society for the Quality of Life Research. We took part at the 4th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Quality of Life Research (November 5-8, 1997, Vienna, Austria).
Members of the association have published 5 articles about quality of life in schizophrenia and mental disability in various scientific journals and one monograph.
At present Dniepropetrovsk Association of the Quality of Human Life works to translate the instrument of the World Health Organisation - WHOQOL - 100 - into Ukrainian.
We are going to organize a Ukrainian QoL Centre. In the future we hope to have an INTERNET QoL Centre not only in UKRAINE, but also for scientists from the Independent States of the former Soviet Union.

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mail to: Svetlana Pkhidenko