Finally, need factors were extracted from the patient clinical records (first and second diagnoses, suicide attempts, history of psychiatric disorders in the family, alcoholism or drug addiction, violence, and a criminal record) and from the CAN (number of: needs, serious needs, and health needs; and percentage of: serious needs out of total needs and health needs out of total needs).
Studies concerning perceived needs have found that quality of life improves when the number of serious needs decreases [ 24- 26, 29, 30, 38].
According to the literature, the absence of serious needs is the most important predictor of a high SQOL in individuals with severe mental disorders [ 26, 39].
Those studies found that a reduction in the number of serious needs [ 34, 37, 40, 44], symptom severity [ 35, 36], anxiety [ 38] or substance abuse [ 21, 45] improves SQOL.
"We have a group of students in serious need of intervention," she said.
They favour offensive military capability at the expense of citizens in serious need of relief from austerity's ideological lash.
Others wrote it off as a tepid and predictable example of a genre in serious need of an overhaul.
"We, in this room, we are America," insisted LaPierre, whose gulpy, throttled delivery belied the clench of a man in serious need of breathing lessons.
When five MPs from the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) said they would join in, a breezy prime minister noted "some of them are in serious need of dieting".
"It tips much too far in favor of an industry in serious need of regulation".
