Socioeconomic differences in the cost-effectiveness of a telephone-based intervention for obesity prevention in early childhood.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study investigated the cost-effectiveness of an early childhood obesity prevention intervention providing telephone and short message service (SMS) support to mothers of children aged 2-4 years by socioeconomic position (SEP).

Methods

A model-based SEP-specific economic evaluation of the intervention was conducted. SEP-specific intervention costs and effects at age 5 years were derived from the trial data and applied to a cohort of 4- to 5-year-old Australian children. We used the validated EQ-EPOCH microsimulation model to predict SEP-specific body mass index (BMI) trajectories, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and health care costs until 17 years of age. Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) and acceptability curves were derived for each SEP grou

SUBMITTER: Lung T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12855013 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature