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The mean utility weight of this sample was comparable with clinical subsamples from other CHU9D studies, but was significantly higher than mean utility weights noted in other child and adolescent mental health samples.
A mean utility weight equivalent to 0.80 (age range 51 65 years) reflecting the type 2 diabetes health state was sourced from the DiabCo$t study, which administered the EuroQol 5-domain (EQ-5D) questionnaire to the same population sample as that of the cost survey described above (13).
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Question 5 (validity of utility weights) was addressed by comparing the mean utility weights (both tariffs) from the current sample against mean utility weights from (a) other studies using the CHU9D, and (b) other utility studies of child and adolescent mental health populations.
Post hoc tests revealed those in the abnormal band had significantly lower utility weights than those in the borderline and normal bands.> Mean utility weights were lower in this study than for 2 Australian community samples (aged 11 17) tested using the CHU9D self-report version [ 22, 24].
Patient-reported utility data from the trial was used to estimate average utility weights for the health states.
Next, we calculated median and mean utility values in each weight status group (healthy weight and overweight/obese) and the difference between means.
Comparing the overall HUI3 utility values between healthy weight and overweight/obese participants in the entire sample (Table 4), both the median and mean utility values for healthy weight participants were somewhat higher (mean difference 0.04, 95% CI -0.04, 0.12).
Mean utility coefficients reflect relative preference weights where larger values indicate more preferred attributes.
Mean utility coefficients are interpreted as relative preference weights where larger values indicate greater utility and more preferred attributes.
Income was weighted with the highest utility weight.
12 We raised the QALY weight for untreated tuberculosis cases to the upper 95% limit of the sampling distribution of its mean (utility score 0.76).
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