{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Killedar A"],"funding":["NSW Health","National Health and Medical Research Council"],"pagination":["2256-2264"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9828236"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["30(11)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Objective</h4>This study aimed to conduct an economic evaluation of the Communicating Healthy Beginnings Advice by Telephone (CHAT) trial to prevent childhood obesity.<h4>Methods</h4>Cost-effectiveness analyses were conducted for the telephone and short message service (SMS) delivery of Healthy Beginnings advice, compared with usual care, which included child health services unrelated to Healthy Beginnings. Costs were valued in 2018 Australian dollars, and costs and outcomes were discounted at 5% per year. The costs of upscaling both delivery modes to all yearly births in New South Wales, Australia, were estimated and compared with the original Healthy Beginnings home-visiting intervention.<h4>Results</h4>At child age 2 years, the SMS delivery was more cost-effective ($5154 per unit BM"],"journal":["Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.)"],"pubmed_title":["Economic evaluation of the Communicating Healthy Beginnings Advice by Telephone trial for early childhood obesity prevention."],"pmcid":["PMC9828236"],"funding_grant_id":["APP1101675","TRGS 200","APP1169823"],"pubmed_authors":["Hayes A","Killedar A","Rissel C","Tan EJ","Wen LM","Marshall S","Buchanan L","Xu H","Taki S","Baur LA"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Economic evaluation of the Communicating Healthy Beginnings Advice by Telephone trial for early childhood obesity prevention.","description":"<h4>Objective</h4>This study aimed to conduct an economic evaluation of the Communicating Healthy Beginnings Advice by Telephone (CHAT) trial to prevent childhood obesity.<h4>Methods</h4>Cost-effectiveness analyses were conducted for the telephone and short message service (SMS) delivery of Healthy Beginnings advice, compared with usual care, which included child health services unrelated to Healthy Beginnings. Costs were valued in 2018 Australian dollars, and costs and outcomes were discounted at 5% per year. The costs of upscaling both delivery modes to all yearly births in New South Wales, Australia, were estimated and compared with the original Healthy Beginnings home-visiting intervention.<h4>Results</h4>At child age 2 years, the SMS delivery was more cost-effective ($5154 per unit BM","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Nov","modification":"2025-04-05T10:26:26.867Z","creation":"2025-04-05T10:26:26.867Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9828236","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36168138"],"doi":["10.1002/oby.23547"]}}