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Modelling utility weights for the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL)-8D

verfasst von: Jeff Richardson, Kompal Sinha, Angelo Iezzi, Munir A. Khan

Erschienen in: Quality of Life Research | Ausgabe 8/2014

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Abstract

Purpose

The objective of this paper is to describe the four-stage methodology used to obtain utility scores for the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL)-8D, a 35-item 8 dimension multi-attribute utility instrument, which was created to achieve a high degree of sensitivity to psycho-social health.

Methods

Data for the analyses were obtained from a representative group of 347 members of the Australian public and from 323 mental health patients each of whom provided VAS and time trade-off valuations of multiple health states. Data were used initially to create multiplicative scoring algorithms for each of the instrument’s 8 dimensions and for the overall instrument. Each of the algorithms was then subject to a second-stage econometric ‘correction’.

Results

Algorithms were successfully created for each of the AQoL-8D’s dimensions, for physical and mental ‘super-dimensions’ and for the overall AQoL-8D instrument. The final AQoL-8D algorithm has good predictive power with respect to the TTO valuations.

Conclusions

The AQoL-8D is a suitable instrument for researchers conducting cost utility analyses generally but, in particular, for the analysis of services affecting psycho-social health.

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Titel: Modelling utility weights for the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL)-8D
verfasst von: Jeff Richardson
Kompal Sinha
Angelo Iezzi
Munir A. Khan
Publikationsdatum: 01.10.2014
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Erschienen in: Quality of Life Research / Ausgabe 8/2014
Print ISSN: 0962-9343
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-2649
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-014-0686-8

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