DIALOG questions
1. How satisfied are you with your mental health?
- This is asking you how you feel about your mental health.
- Your mental health is about having a healthy mind.
- It is about how you think and feel.
It includes:
- how you cope with things that are stressful
- how you cope with things changing
- whether you are able to manage the things that are important to you, like work or hobbies.
- How you cope with your feelings
2. How satisfied are you with your physical health?
- This question is asking you how you feel about your physical health.
- Your physical health is about having a healthy body.
It includes:
- the food that you eat, for example having a healthy diet
- your weight
- exercise and staying fit
- diseases or illnesses that you have
- any hospital or doctor’s appointments you have had
- help you have had from specialists like the dentist or a physiotherapist
3. How satisfied are you with your situation?
- This question is asking you how feel about your job.
- This might be a paid job or a volunteer job.
- This could also mean how you feel about school or college.
It includes:
- if you enjoy your job
- if you are able to do things that you need to do at work
- if you are able to cope with the work you need to do
- if you get on with people at work
4. How satisfied are you with your accommodation?
- This question is asking you how you feel about where you live.
- This can also mean how you feel about the ward if this is where you are living.
This might include:
- the area you live in
- the people you live with
- the type of home you live in
- if you have a choice about where you live
5. How satisfied are you with your leisure activities?
- This question is asking you how you feel about the things you do in your free time.
- This includes how you feel about your hobbies, exercise and spending time with your friends.
This might include:
- if you have enough to do in your free time
- if you enjoy the things you do in your free time
- if you have time or energy to do things in your free time
- if it is easy for you to do the activities you enjoy
6. How satisfied are you with your relationship with your partner or family
- This question is asking you how you feel about the relationships you have with your family and your partner.
- This also includes relationships with your children and your unpaid carers.
This might include:
- if you get on well with them
- if you feel supported by them
- if you are able to see them when you want to
- if you enjoy doing things together
- if you are able to talk to them about things that are important to you
- any difficulties in relation to your children, for example difficulties with child care
7. How satisfied are you with your friendships
- This questions is asking you how you feel about the relationship you have with your friends.
This might include:
- if you have enough friends
- how you feel about meeting new people and making new friends
- if you get on well with your friends
- if you feel supported by your friends
- if you are able to see your friends when you want to
- if you are able to talk to your friends about the things that are important to you
- how you feel about your relationship with your befriender
8. How satisfied are you with your personal safety?
- This question is asking you how you feel about your safety.
This might include:
- if you feel safe in your home or on the ward
- if you feel safe in your local area
- if you feel safe on public transport
- if you feel safe to go out on your own
- if you feel worried that you might be bullied
- any safeguarding issues you have, for example, if you feel worried that you might be abused
9. How satisfied are you with your medication?
- This question is asking you how feel about the medicines you take.
This might include:
- how you feel about the amount of medication you need to take
- how you feel about the side effects of the medication you take, for example, the effect on your medication
- if you are able to manage your medication on your own or the support you get to take your medication
- how easily you can get your medication, for example from the pharmacy
- if you think the medication is helping you
- if you feel you have been given enough information about your medication
10. How satisfied are you with the practical help you receive?
- This question is asking you how you feel about the help that you are given from staff and paid carers.
This might include help you have been given with:
- your money
- where you live
- your activities
- meeting other people
- getting around
It might also include:
- if you feel like you have been given enough help
- if you feel that the help you were given has made things easier
- if you feel like you have been given the help you asked for
11. How satisfied are you with your meetings with mental health professionals?
- This question is asking you how you feel about the meetings you have with staff about you mental health.
This might include:
- how you feel about the time that your meetings happen and if they happen often enough
- if your meetings are easy to organise
- if you think that the right members come to your meetings
- if you are able to understand what is talked about
- if you feel supported to say what you want to say and feel tat people listen to you
- if you feel that you talk about the things which are important to you in the meeting
- if you feel like you understand what is going to happen next
All questions are ranked using:
- very unhappy
- unhappy
- quite unhappy
- in the middle
- quite happy
- happy
- very happy
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- Authorisation: Used with permission from East London NHS Foundation Trust.
- Author: Hannah Watson (Specialist speech and language therapist and ELFT accessible information manager).
Page last reviewed: June 28, 2024
Next review due: June 28, 2025
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