Parents’ Willingness to Pay for Biologic Treatments in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Dec 1, 2014, 00:00 AM
10.1016/j.jval.2014.08.2668
https://www.valueinhealthjournal.com/article/S1098-3015(14)04617-8/fulltext
Section Title : Preference-Based Assessments
Section Order : 9
First Page : 830

Background

Biologic therapies are considered the standard of care for children with the most severe forms of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Inconsistent and inadequate drug coverage, however, prevents many children from receiving timely and equitable access to the best treatment.

Objective

The objective of this study was to evaluate parents’ willingness to pay (WTP) for biologic and nonbiologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) used to treat JIA.

Methods

Utility weights from a discrete choice experiment were used to estimate the WTP for treatment characteristics including child-reported pain, participation in daily activities, side effects, days missed from school, drug treatment, and cost. Conditional logit regression was used to estimate utilities for each attribute level, and expected compensating variation was used to estimate the WTP. Bootstrapping was used to generate 95% confidence intervals for all WTP estimates.

Results

Parents had the highest marginal WTP for improved participation in daily activities and pain relief followed by the elimination of side effects of treatment. Parents were willing to pay $2080 (95% confidence interval $698–$4065) more for biologic DMARDs than for nonbiologic DMARDs if the biologic DMARD was more effective.

Conclusions

Parents’ WTP indicates their preference for treatments that reduce pain and improve daily functioning without side effects by estimating the monetary equivalent of utility for drug treatments in JIA. In addition to evidence of safety and efficacy, assessments of parents’ preferences provide a broader perspective to decision makers by helping them understand the aspects of drug treatments in JIA that are most valued by families.

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HEOR Topics :
  • Methodological & Statistical Research
  • Musculoskeletal Disorders
  • Preference Methods
  • Sensory System Disorders
  • Specialized Treatment Areas
  • Specific Diseases & Conditions
  • Systemic Disorders/Conditions
Tags :
  • biologics
  • discrete choice experiment
  • juvenile idiopathic arthritis
  • willingness to pay
Regions :
  • North America