Paving the way for the use of the SDQ in economic evaluations of school-based population health interventions: an empirical analysis of the external validity of SDQ mapping algorithms to the CHU9D in an educational setting

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• 作者：Nicole R. S. Boyer ; Sarah Miller ; Paul Connolly ; Emma McIntosh
• 关键词：SDQ ; CHU9D ; Child health utility ; Health outcomes ; School ; based intervention ; Population health
• 刊名：Quality of Life Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：April 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：25
• 期：4
• 页码：913-923
• 全文大小：594 KB
• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Medicine & Public Health
  Quality of Life Research
  Sociology
  Public Health
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-2649

文摘

Purpose The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a behavioural screening tool for children. The SDQ is increasingly used as the primary outcome measure in population health interventions involving children, but it is not preference based; therefore, its role in allocative economic evaluation is limited. The Child Health Utility 9D (CHU9D) is a generic preference-based health-related quality of-life measure. This study investigates the applicability of the SDQ outcome measure for use in economic evaluations and examines its relationship with the CHU9D by testing previously published mapping algorithms. The aim of the paper is to explore the feasibility of using the SDQ within economic evaluations of school-based population health interventions.