This page provides information and guidance about outcome and experience measures: questionnaires that have been designed to measure an aspect of young people’s mental health and wellbeing or their experience of care. Outcome measures can be used to get a better understanding of what a child or young person is experiencing and to track how this changes over time, or to assess the impact of an intervention or a service for a group.
CORC hosts a directory of outcome and feedback measures to support you as practitioners or services to identify the most appropriate tool for your work or provision. There is flexibility in how these tools are used, such as printed paper or PDF based measures or electronic data collection platforms.
Our website also contains various free guidance for using outcome measures, including working with specific groups of children and young people. For an introduction to outcome measures, choosing which measures will be appropriate for your service to implement, and other training to expand your knowledge around effective use, please see our training schedule. We also offer bespoke training for organisations as required.
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Directory of outcome measures
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Using outcome data and comparing change
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Training for Using Outcome Measures
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Using outcome measures with specific groups of children and young people
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Outcome and experience measures when providing a remote service
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Pod: Mental health outcomes and feedback system
If you have further questions, please get in touch at CORC@annafreud.org.
At CORC we believe that everyone who offers support to children and young people should collect and use evidence as part of their day-to-day work. However CORC does not mandate the use of any specific measure(s). The most important consideration in choosing a measure is that it is meaningful to your service, service-users and the work that you do.
We recommend services do not change the words in measures because (in most cases) this has been tried and tested through a research process. . If you do wish to make modifications to any measure, we suggest that you contact the copyright holders directly: different measures have different copyright specifications. Some measures have been translated, however if a measure is not available in the language you require, you can contact the copyright holder to agree whether translation can be arranged.
Any modifications to standardised measures will mean your data will not be comparable to that collected by other CORC members (which we hold data for). If you wish to submit data from a modified version of a measure, we ask that you get in touch with us beforehand to discuss this.