Measuring health outcomes of adolescents: report from a pilot study
(2011) The European Journal of Health Economics — Vol. 14, n° 1, p. 11-19 (2011)
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- Abstract
- There is a need to understand the practicality, validity and reliability of using utility measures with children and adolescents. We designed a pilot study in order to help guide the selection of an appropriate health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) questionnaire for adolescents to be used in the context of a large randomised controlled trial (RCT) of family therapy versus standard treatment for adolescents aged 11–17 years. The pilot study was carried out on a school sample of adolescents in the same age range as the RCT. Adolescents were asked to fill in three HRQoL questionnaires: the standard EQ-5D, the licensed Health Utilities Index HUI, and the child-friendly version of the standard EQ-5D: the EQ-5D for youth (EQ-5D-Y). This report explores the problems with the language and concepts embodied within those HRQoL questionnaires and open discussion regarding how we can value the health of adolescents for cost-utility analysis in a larger study.
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Academic Unit of Health Economics University of Leeds
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Oluboyede, Y., Tubeuf, S., & McCabe, C. (2011). Measuring health outcomes of adolescents: report from a pilot study. The European Journal of Health Economics, 14(1), 11-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-011-0340-0 (Original work published 2011)