Developing an Australian utility value set for the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale-4D (ECOHIS-4D) using a discrete choice experiment
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Published:2022-11-17
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ISSN:1618-7598
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Container-title:The European Journal of Health Economics
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Eur J Health Econ
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Hettiarachchi Ruvini M.ORCID, Arrow PeterORCID, Senanayake SameeraORCID, Carter HannahORCID, Brain DavidORCID, Norman RichardORCID, Tonmukayawul UtsanaORCID, Jamieson LisaORCID, Kularatna SanjeewaORCID
Abstract
Abstract
Purpose
Preference-based quality of life measures (PBMs) are used to generate quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) in economic evaluations. A PBM consists of (1) a health state classification system and (2) a utility value set that allows the instrument responses to be converted to QALYs. A new, oral health-specific classification system, the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale-4D (ECOHIS-4D) has recently been developed. The aim of this study was to generate an Australian utility value set for the ECOHIS-4D.
Methods
A discrete choice experiment with duration (DCETTO) was used as the preference elicitation technique. An online survey was administered to a representative sample of Australian adults over 18 years. Respondents were given 14 choice tasks (10 tasks from the DCE design of 50 choice sets blocked into five blocks, 2 practice tasks, a repeated and a dominant task). Data were analyzed using the conditional logit model.
Results
A total of 1201 respondents from the Australian general population completed the survey. Of them, 69% (n = 829) perceived their oral health status to be good, very good, or excellent. The estimated coefficients from the conditional logit models were in the expected directions and were statistically significant (p < 0.001). The utility values for health states defined by the ECOHIS-4D ranged from 0.0376 to 1.0000.
Conclusions
This newly developed utility value set will enable the calculation of utility values for economic evaluations of interventions related to oral diseases such as dental caries among young children. This will facilitate more effective resource allocation for oral health services.
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Department of Health, Government of Western Australia Queensland University of Technology
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Health Policy,Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
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