This is from the American Chronic Pain Association Quality of Life Scale. The pdf is here: http://theacpa.org/uploads/documents/Quality_of_Life_Scale.pdf It’d be beneficial for someone in the community who is both time rich and spoon rich to create a text copy of this for copy/paste and printing purposes.
I’m actually going to use this when talking to my HR department in the next few days. Thank you.
Also applicable to mental health.
Swinging between 3 and 4 nowadays, coming from 0 so progress!
It is applicable to mental health as well. I’m at about a 3.
As an aside, the only criticism I have of this scale AT ALL after thinking about it for several days is that a lot of people, for survival, have to structure their lives so that work responsibilities come first, not household responsibilities. So you have a situation where someone can work a full day but not have a fulfilling outside-of-work life at all. And that’s a situation I see a heck of a lot of chronically ill people in, whether that illness is a physical or mental one.
But overall, yes, this is such a useful tool.
Exactly. I work or run errands for about 1/3 of the day, then rest at home, usually in bed, for the other 2/3. And if my roommate isn’t around to need food, I don’t cook, which generally means I eat next to nothing if I’m alone. I had to do a fasting blood test this morning and realized I actually hadn’t eaten anything in 36 hours. And my house is a disaster. Something has to give here.
