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Social relationships as a major determinant in the valuation of health states

verfasst von: Ulrich Frick, Hyacinth Irving, Jürgen Rehm

Erschienen in: Quality of Life Research | Ausgabe 2/2012

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Abstract

Purpose

To empirically determine the impact of the capacity to sustain social relationships on valuing health states.

Methods

68 clinical experts conducted a health state valuation exercise in five sites using pairwise comparison, ranking, and person trade-off as elicitation methods. 23,840 pairwise comparisons of a total of 379 health states were analyzed by conditional logistic regression.

Results

Social relationships had a clear monotonic association with perceived disability: the more limited the capacity to sustain social relationships, the more disabling the resulting health state valuations. The highest level of limitations with respect to social relationships was associated with slightly lower impact on health state valuations compared to the highest level of limitations in physical functioning.

Conclusions

Social relationships showed an independent contribution to health state valuations and should be included in health state measures.

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Titel: Social relationships as a major determinant in the valuation of health states
verfasst von: Ulrich Frick
Hyacinth Irving
Jürgen Rehm
Publikationsdatum: 01.03.2012
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Quality of Life Research / Ausgabe 2/2012
Print ISSN: 0962-9343
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-2649
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-011-9945-0

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