Impact of Including Carer Information in Time Trade-Off Tasks: Results from a Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Carer quality of life (QoL) can be included in economic evaluations and captured using EQ-5D. Traditional valuation tasks require participants to imagine living in a health state for a number of years, without being told what to consider. This pilot study sought to investigate whether participants implicitly consider the impact of the health state on others, and the extent to which this may impact health state valuations.

Methods

Composite time trade-off (TTO) interviews were conducted with a convenience sample. Each interview included a 'traditional' TTO exercise to value three health states, and a 'combined' TTO exercise, where participants valued the same health states again, having been informed that they would require a carer living in a particular health s

SUBMITTER: Mott DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8611139 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature