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Health state utilities and subjective well-being among psoriasis vulgaris patients in mainland China

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Abstract

Purpose

To investigate the validity of direct and indirect health state utility (HSU) and subjective well-being measures in psoriasis vulgaris patients.

Methods

A convenience sampling framework was used to successively recruit patients with psoriasis vulgaris from the outpatient clinics of a tertiary hospital in Changsha, Central South China. Participants completed time trade-off (TTO), standard gamble (SG), the five-level EQ-5D (EQ-5D-5L), the WHO-5 well-being index, and the psoriasis disability index (PDI). The concurrent and known-groups validity of HSUs and well-being index in psoriasis patients were firstly studied. The agreements among HSUs and the relationship between HSU and well-being measures were further explored.

Results

A valid sample of 343 patients was analyzed. Mean HSU and well-being scores elicited from the EQ-5D-5L/TTO/SG and WHO-5 were 0.90/0.85/0.88 and 13.69, respectively. The Spearman correlation (concurrent validity) was the strongest between PDI and WHO-5 (r = 0.45), followed by with EQ-5D-5L (0.38), SG (r = 0.20), and the TTO (r = 0.18). The pairwise intraclass correlation coefficients among the three HSU measures were < 0.30. The known-groups validity was evident in all measures except for the SG. Exploratory factor analysis further suggests a complementary relationship between the EQ-5D-5L and WHO-5.

Conclusions

There is a poor agreement between direct and indirect methods on measuring HSU with psoriasis vulgaris. Results from this study recommend that the EQ-5D-5L is the most preferred method to elicit HSU from psoriasis vulgaris patients in mainland China. It is important to further analyze the subjective well-being in addition to the HSU to fully understand the impact of psoriasis.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank all the participants for their time and effort. Responsibility for any remaining errors lies solely with the authors.

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The project was sponsored by the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry (No. [2015]311).

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  1. School of Health Care Management, Shandong University, Jinan, China

    Liu Liu & Shunping Li

  2. Key Laboratory of Health Economics and Policy Research, NHFPC (Shandong University), Jinan, China

    Liu Liu & Shunping Li

  3. Department of Dermatology, Heping Hospital, Changzhi Medical College, Changzhi, Shanxi, China

    Yue Zhao

  4. Department of Dermatology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

    Jianglin Zhang

  5. Centre for Health Economic, Monash Business School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

    Gang Chen

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Liu, L., Li, S., Zhao, Y. et al. Health state utilities and subjective well-being among psoriasis vulgaris patients in mainland China. Qual Life Res 27, 1323–1333 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-018-1819-2

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