How to collect non-medical data in a pediatric trial: diaries or interviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Non-medical data, such as the amount of time that patients and caregivers spend managing their condition, may be relevant when assessing therapeutic strategies. For chronic pediatric conditions, the time that patients and caregivers spend in seeking and providing care (which are the indirect costs in an economic evaluation) can be significantly different depending on the treatment arm. To explore methods for collecting information on the care burden for caregivers and patients, we investigated whether a patient diary provided additional information compared to retrospective investigator-led interviews and whether a diary that was completed intermittently produced more or less information than a diary completed continually. The main objective of this study was to identify

SUBMITTER: Le Jeannic A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6947947 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature