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Economic costs and preference-based health-related quality of life outcomes associated with childhood psychiatric disorders
- Authors:
- PETROU Stavros, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 197(5), November 2010, pp.395-404.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This study estimated the costs and preference-based health-related quality of life outcomes associated with a range of childhood psychiatric disorders during the eleventh year of life. Participants included 190 extremely preterm children and 141 term-born controls, who undertook psychiatric assessment using the Development and Well Being Assessment and the Kaufman-Assessment Battery for Children. Questionnaires completed by parents and teachers described the children’s utilisation of health, social and education services at the age of eleven. Parents also described their child’s health status using the Health Utilities Index health status classification system. The paper presents detailed costs and health utilities associated with psychiatric disorders for the preterm population and term-born population. The authors suggest that the results of the study should be used to inform future economic evaluations of interventions aimed at preventing childhood psychiatric disorders or alleviating their effects.