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Economic evaluation of a psychological intervention for high distress cancer patients and carers: costs and quality‐adjusted life years

Overview of attention for article published in Psycho-Oncology, November 2015
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Title
Economic evaluation of a psychological intervention for high distress cancer patients and carers: costs and quality‐adjusted life years
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Psycho-Oncology, November 2015
DOI 10.1002/pon.4020
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Authors

Mary Lou Chatterton, Suzanne Chambers, Stefano Occhipinti, Afaf Girgis, Jeffrey Dunn, Rob Carter, Sophy Shih, Cathrine Mihalopoulos

Abstract

This study compared the cost-effectiveness of a psychologist-led, individualised cognitive behavioural intervention (PI) to a nurse-led, minimal contact self-management condition for highly distressed cancer patients and carers. This was an economic evaluation conducted alongside a randomised trial of highly distressed adult cancer patients and carers calling cancer helplines. Services used by participants were measured using a resource use questionnaire, and quality-adjusted life years were measured using the assessment of quality of life - eight-dimension - instrument collected through a computer-assisted telephone interview. The base case analysis stratified participants based on the baseline score on the Brief Symptom Inventory. Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio confidence intervals were calculated with a nonparametric bootstrap to reflect sampling uncertainty. The results were subjected to sensitivity analysis by varying unit costs for resource use and the method for handling missing data. No significant differences were found in overall total costs or quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) between intervention groups. Bootstrapped data suggest the PI had a higher probability of lower cost and greater QALYs for both carers and patients with high distress at baseline. For patients with low levels of distress at baseline, the PI had a higher probability of greater QALYs but at additional cost. Sensitivity analysis showed the results were robust. The PI may be cost-effective compared with the nurse-led, minimal contact self-management condition for highly distressed cancer patients and carers. More intensive psychological intervention for patients with greater levels of distress appears warranted. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 2%
Spain 1 1%
Unknown 85 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 13 15%
Student > Bachelor 12 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 10%
Student > Master 9 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 8%
Other 19 22%
Unknown 19 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 25 28%
Psychology 16 18%
Social Sciences 5 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 5%
Unspecified 4 5%
Other 12 14%
Unknown 22 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 January 2020.
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#6,766,869
of 24,565,648 outputs
Outputs from Psycho-Oncology
#917
of 2,440 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#80,196
of 290,813 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psycho-Oncology
#13
of 54 outputs
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