Revisiting the Valuation of Child Health-Related Quality of Life: Replacing Paired Comparisons With Kaizen Tasks and QALY Scaling With Experience Scaling.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

In 2013, the EQ-5D-Y-3L valuation study conducted by Craig and colleagues (ie, the original study) of child health-related quality of life (HRQoL) revealed that U.S. respondents often found it burdensome and guilt-inducing to choose between hypothetical health problems of children. This study introduces an alternative approach where respondents sequentially relieve the health problems of a 10-year-old child for 1 week.

Methods

We conducted a discrete choice experiment (DCE) survey (N=631) with paired comparisons and kaizen tasks. Each kaizen task displayed a single profile of a child's HRQoL using the EQ-5D-Y-3L descriptive system and asked respondents to select first, second, and third improvements for the child's problems. Combining the preference evidence, a co

SUBMITTER: Jumamyradov M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12422609 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature