Estimating Health Utilities for Health States of Patients with Stroke Using the SF-6D
Author(s)
Fatoye F1, Gebrye T2, Akosile CO3, Okoye EC3, Okoli UV3
1Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK, 2Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, LAN, UK, 3Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nnewe, Nigeria
Presentation Documents
OBJECTIVES: Stroke is a non-traumatic, focal vascular-induced injury of the central nervous system. Short Form (SF)-6D is a preference-based measure of health developed to estimate health utility values from the SF-36. This study was aimed to estimate utility scores using data from a preference-based SF-36 for stroke patients in Nigeria.
METHODS: SF-36 responses from 125 individuals with stroke were transformed into utility values using the SF-6D algorithm developed by Brazier and colleagues. We used excel programme to generate the SF-6D utility scores estimated using a set of parametric preference weights obtained from a sample of stroke patients. The utility was determined using ordinal health state valuation.
RESULTS: The mean age of the participants was 63.95 years. The average duration of stroke was 22 months. The mean (Standard Deviation (SD)) ordinal health state valuation for stroke patients was 0.48 (0.13). The mean (SD) utility for female and male participants were 0.46 (0.15) and 0.50 (0.12), respectively.
CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that the stroke survivors considered their health poorer than expected and particularly women more than men. Our findings will be helpful to inform cost-effectiveness analyses of interventions to facilitate resource allocation for patients for preventing and managing individuals with stroke to improve their health outcomes.
Conference/Value in Health Info
Value in Health, Volume 25, Issue 12S (December 2022)
Code
PCR236
Topic
Patient-Centered Research
Topic Subcategory
Health State Utilities, Stated Preference & Patient Satisfaction
Disease
SDC: Cardiovascular Disorders (including MI, Stroke, Circulatory)