Developing a preference-based measure for weight-specific health-related quality of life in adolescence: the WAItE UK valuation study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Adolescent obesity is a public health problem in the UK. The Weight-Specific Adolescent Instrument for Economic Evaluation (WAItE) has been developed as the first weight-specific health-related quality of life measure appropriate for economic evaluation, but currently cannot be used to generate quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), which are the basis of cost-utility analysis. Generic measures (such as the EQ-5D-Y or CHU-9D) may be insensitive to small but important health changes in overweight or obese adolescents. This study aims to generate a preference-based scoring algorithm for the WAItE.

Methods and analysis

A discrete choice experiment (DCE) will be administered to value health states described by the WAItE classification system. These health states will

SUBMITTER: Robinson T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8596058 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature