Generating EQ-5D-3L health utility scores from the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale: a perinatal mapping study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Perinatal depression (PND) describes depression experienced by parents during pregnancy or in the first year after a baby is born. The EQ-5D instrument (a generic measure of health status) is not often collected in perinatal research, however disease-specific measures, such as the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) are widely used. Mapping can be used to estimate generic health utility index values from disease-specific measures like the EPDS.

Objective

To develop a mapping algorithm to estimate EQ-5D utility index values from the EPDS.

Methods

Patient-level data from the BaBY PaNDA study (English observational cohort study) provided 1068 observations with paired EPDS and EQ-5D (3-level version; EQ-5D-3L) responses. We compared the performance of s

SUBMITTER: Camacho EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10858827 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature