- Title
- Health-related quality of life and willingness to pay per quality-adjusted life-year threshold-a study in patients with epilepsy in China
- Creator
- Gao, Lan; Xia, Li; Pan, Song-Qing; Xiong, Tao; Li, Shu-Chuen
- Relation
- Value in Health Regional Issues Vol. 6, Issue May 2015, p. 89-97
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vhri.2015.03.019
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Objectives: To assess the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and willingness to pay (WTP) per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) amount of patients with epilepsy in China. Methods: Adults with epilepsy and a healthy control were recruited in two tertiary hospitals in China. Participants completed two indirect utility elicitation instruments (Quality of Well-being Scale-self administered version and EuroQol five-dimensional questionnaire) and a WTP questionnaire. Correlations between sociodemographic or epilepsy-specific variables (age of epilepsy onset, duration of epilepsy, seizure types, types of antiepileptic drug treatment, etc.) and HRQOL or WTP/QALY were assessed to identify the candidate predictor. Multiple linear regression models were adopted to investigate the predictive performances of identified candidate predictors. Data analyses were performed on SPSS 20.0 (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL). Results: For utilities of both the Quality of Well-being Scale-self administered version and the EuroQol five-dimensional questionnaire, patients with epilepsy had statistically lower values than did the control group (P < 0.0001). In terms of the WTP/month, the percentage of WTP accounting for the monthly income and the WTP/QALY values from the epilepsy group were substantially higher than those from the control group (P < 0.0001). [Formula could not be replicated] The multiple linear regression model identified working status (P = 0.05), seizure types (P = 0.022), income (P = 0.006), and self-rating health state (P < 0.05) as predictors of HRQOL while income (P = 0.000) and self-rating health state (P < 0.05) statistically contributed to the variations in WTP/QALY value for the epilepsy group. Conclusions: Patients with epilepsy had substantially lower HRQOL than did the healthy population.
- Subject
- China; cost-effectiveness analysis; epilepsy; health-related quality of life; willingness to pay
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1339320
- Identifier
- uon:28227
- Identifier
- ISSN:2212-1099
- Language
- eng
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