Miguel A Garcia-Gordillo1,2, Daniel Collado-Mateo3, Pedro R Olivares4,5, José C Adsuar6,3. 1. Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain. miguelgarciagordillo@gmail.com. 2. Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain. miguelgarciagordillo@gmail.com. 3. Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain. 4. Instituto de Calidad de Vida, Actividad Fisica y Salud, Universidad Autonoma de Chile, Talca, Chile. 5. Instituto Superior de Educación Física, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay. 6. Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: The Health-Related Quality of Life Short Form 6D (HRQoL SF-6D) provides utility values for health status. Utilities generated have a number of potentially valuable applications in economic evaluations and not only to ensure comparability between studies. Reference values can be useful to estimate the effect on patients' HRQoL as a result of interventions in the absence of control groups. Thus, the purpose of this study was to provide normative values in the SF-6D in relation to the Chilean population. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted evaluating 5293 people. SF-6D utilities were derived from the SF-12 questions. RESULTS: Mean SF-6D utility index for the whole sample was 0.74. It was better for men (0.78) than for women (0.71). The ceiling effect was much higher for men (11.16%) than for women (5.31%). Women were more likely to show problems in any dimension than were men. CONCLUSIONS: Chilean population norms for the SF-6D help in the decision-making process around health policies. Men reported higher health status than women in all subcategories analyzed. Likewise, men also reported higher scores than women in overall SF-6D dimensions.
OBJECTIVES: The Health-Related Quality of Life Short Form 6D (HRQoL SF-6D) provides utility values for health status. Utilities generated have a number of potentially valuable applications in economic evaluations and not only to ensure comparability between studies. Reference values can be useful to estimate the effect on patients' HRQoL as a result of interventions in the absence of control groups. Thus, the purpose of this study was to provide normative values in the SF-6D in relation to the Chilean population. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted evaluating 5293 people. SF-6D utilities were derived from the SF-12 questions. RESULTS: Mean SF-6D utility index for the whole sample was 0.74. It was better for men (0.78) than for women (0.71). The ceiling effect was much higher for men (11.16%) than for women (5.31%). Women were more likely to show problems in any dimension than were men. CONCLUSIONS: Chilean population norms for the SF-6D help in the decision-making process around health policies. Men reported higher health status than women in all subcategories analyzed. Likewise, men also reported higher scores than women in overall SF-6D dimensions.
Authors: Victor Zarate; Paul Kind; Paulina Valenzuela; Alberto Vignau; Pedro Olivares-Tirado; Alberto Munoz Journal: Value Health Date: 2011-11-06 Impact factor: 5.725