Measuring the Indirect Cost of Illness Using EQ-5D-5L While Accounting for Job Characteristics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The EQ-5D-5L questionnaire is used to measure treatment effects on the quality of life. For cost-utility analyses, EQ-5D-5L profiles are assigned numbers representing societal preferences (index weights). On the cost side, the indirect costs are frequently included: the value of product lost due to illness-related absences (absenteeism) or diminished productivity (presenteeism). The possibility to use EQ-5D data to estimate absenteeism and presenteeism (A&P) would be useful, if real-world data on A&P are lacking. However, beyond-health factors may also matter for A&P.

Objective

We aimed to assess how A&P depend on the EQ-5D-5L profile, while accounting for job characteristics (e.g. remote or in-office).

Methods

We surveyed 756 employed Poles. Respondents re

SUBMITTER: Kon B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10163582 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature