Validating generic preference-base measures of health in mental health populations and estimating mapping functions

验证心理健康人群的基于偏好的通用健康衡量标准并估计映射函数

• 批准号: G0801394/1
• 负责人: John Brazier
• 金额: $ 29.24万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=G0801394%2F1
• 关键词: Validating; generic; preference; base; measures

The NHS has to make some tough choices about what services to provide. One way to make these choices is to examine the value for money of services by looking at the costs and benefits they provide. A major problem for the NHS is how to measure the benefits of a service. One measure of benefit that is becoming increasingly used is the quality adjusted life year (QALYs), which measures the gain in the quality of life experienced by the users of services. The calculation of QALYs requires some means of valuing the quality of life of people in receipt of services. Current ?generic? measures of health have been developed mainly for people with physical problems. This proposal aims to critically review two leading measures for calculating QALYs. It includes interviews with service users about their quality of life and how well these measures cover those aspects of their life. This study will also look at how well these measures have performed in statistical terms in previous studies. This study hopes to help improve the methods used by researchers in assessing the effectiveness of treatments.

NHS必须就提供什么服务做出一些坚韧的选择。作出这些选择的一种方法是通过观察服务提供的成本和效益来审查服务的性价比。NHS的一个主要问题是如何衡量服务的好处。越来越多地使用的一种效益衡量标准是质量调整生命年，它衡量服务使用者生活质量的提高。计算生活质量指数需要某种方法来评估接受服务的人的生活质量。当前的？通用的？保健措施主要是为有身体问题的人制定的。本建议旨在严格审查计算QHMS的两种主要方法。它包括与服务用户的访谈，了解他们的生活质量以及这些措施如何涵盖他们生活的这些方面。本研究还将研究这些措施在以前的研究中在统计方面的表现。这项研究希望有助于改善研究人员在评估治疗效果时所使用的方法。