Cost-effectiveness of physical activity interventions in adolescents: model development and illustration using two exemplar interventions.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop a model to assess the long-term costs and health outcomes of physical activity interventions targeting adolescents.

Design

A Markov cohort simulation model was constructed with the intention of being capable of estimating long-term costs and health impacts of changes in activity levels during adolescence. The model parameters were informed by published literature and the analysis took a National Health Service perspective over a lifetime horizon. Univariate and probabilistic sensitivity analyses were undertaken.

Setting

School and community.

Participants

A hypothetical cohort of adolescents aged 16 years at baseline.

Interventions

Two exemplar school-based: a comparatively simple, after-school intervention and a more complex multicom

SUBMITTER: Gc VS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6701678 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature