Needs assessment in mental health is a complex and multifaceted process that involves different steps, from assessing mental health needs at the population or individual level to assessing the different needs of individuals or groups of people. This review focuses on quantitative needs assessment tools for people with mental health problems. Our aim was to find all possible tools that can be used to assess different needs within different populations, according to their diverse uses. A comprehensive literature search with the Boolean operators “Mental health” AND “Needs assessment” was conducted in the PubMed and PsychINFO electronic databases. The search was performed with the inclusion of all results without time or other limits. Only papers addressing quantitative studies on needs assessment in people with mental health problems were included. Additional articles were added through a review of previous review articles that focused on a narrower range of such needs and their assessment. Twenty-nine different need-assessment tools specifically designed for people with mental health problems were found. Some tools can only be used by professionals, some by patients, some even by caregivers, or a combination of all three. Within each recognized tool, there are different fields of needs, so they can be used for different purposes within the needs assessment process, according to the final research or clinical aims. The added value of this review is that the retrieved tools can be used for assessment at the individual level, research purposes or evaluation at the outcome level. Therefore, best needs assessment tool can be chosen based on the specific goals or focus of the related needs assessment.

心理健康需求评估是一个复杂且多方面的过程，涉及不同的步骤，从评估人群或个人层面的心理健康需求到评估个人或群体的不同需求。本次审查的重点是针对有心理健康问题的人的定量需求评估工具。我们的目标是找到所有可能的工具，根据不同人群的不同用途来评估不同人群的不同需求。在 PubMed 和 PsychINFO 电子数据库中使用布尔运算符“心理健康”和“需求评估”进行了全面的文献检索。搜索是在包含所有结果的情况下进行的，没有时间或其他限制。仅包含针对有心理健康问题的人的需求评估的定量研究的论文。通过回顾以前的评论文章添加了更多文章，这些文章侧重于较小范围的此类需求及其评估。发现了专为有心理健康问题的人设计的二十九种不同的需求评估工具。有些工具只能由专业人员使用，有些工具只能由患者使用，有些工具甚至只能由护理人员使用，或者三者的组合。在每个公认的工具中，都有不同的需求领域，因此根据最终的研究或临床目标，它们可以在需求评估过程中用于不同的目的。本次审查的附加价值在于，检索到的工具可用于个人层面的评估、研究目的或结果层面的评估。因此，可以根据相关需求评估的具体目标或重点来选择最佳的需求评估工具。