Factors influencing health-related quality of life in patients with Type 1 diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Generic, preference-based measures of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are a common input to the economic evaluation of new health technologies. As such, it is important to explore what characteristics of patients with Type 1 diabetes might impact scores on such measures.

Methods

This study utilizes baseline data from a cluster-randomized trial that recruited patients with Type 1 diabetes at six centers across Ireland. Health-related quality of life was assessed using the three-level EuroQol EQ-5D (EQ-5D) measure. Patients' responses to individual dimensions of the EQ-5D were explored. To see which patient factors influenced EQ-5D scores, multivariate regression analysis was conducted with EQ-5D scores as the outcome variable.

Results

Data was available for

SUBMITTER: Raymakers AJN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5797407 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature