Rudolf H. Moos

Dr Moos' research program focuses primarily on patients with psychiatric and/or substance use disorders and addresses four main issues: (1) the development of process indices of the quality of mental health care and specification of their relationship to proximal and long-term indices of treatment outcome; (2) the assessment of life context or extra-treatment factors, such as patients' family and work settings, and examination of how they influence entry into and participation in formal and informal care, and the outcome of care; (3) identification of the characteristics of episodes of care and treatment careers and their associations with treatment outcome for distinct subgroups of patients; and (4) focus on how informal sources of care, such as self-help and mutual support groups, can enhance the outcome of formal treatment or substitute for formal treatment.