UK General Population Utility Values for the SIDECAR-D Instrument Measuring the Impact of Caring for People With Dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Dementia affects many people, with numbers expected to grow as populations age. Many people with dementia receive informal/family/unpaid care, for example, from a spouse or child, which may affect carer quality of life. Measuring the effectiveness of health/social care interventions for carers requires a value measure of the quality-of-life impact of caring. This motivated development of the Scales Measuring the Impact of Dementia on Carers-D (SIDECAR-D) instrument. This study aimed to obtain general population values for SIDECAR-D to aid incorporating the impact of caring in economic evaluation.

Methods

Members of the UK general public completed a best-worst scaling object case survey, which included the 18 SIDECAR-D items and EQ-5D-3L descriptions. Responses wer

SUBMITTER: Webb EJD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7456787 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature