Project Details
Project Description
The EQ Health and Wellbeing (EQ-HWB) is a new measure developed by the EuroQol group for evaluating interventions in
health, public health, and social care including the impact on patients, social care users, and carers. Since its development,
emerging evidence has indicated areas for improvements in terms of comprehensibility and acceptability. As a result,
modified versions of the EQ-HWB and its short version, the EQ-HWB-S, have been developed that require further testing. The
aim of this study is to examine the performance of the modified EQ-HWB-S among the general public in Australia. This
piggyback study will leverage data collected from an ongoing online survey involving 1,000 members of the general public in
Australia. The primary aim of the survey was to derive a value set for a new informal carer-specific quality of life measure
using discrete choice experiment with duration. The survey contained questions around respondents’ health and sociodemographic characteristics, informal care experience, happiness, the EQ-5D-5L and the EQ-HWB-S, where 500 respondents
randomly completed the current EQ-HWB-S and 500 respondents the modified EQ-HWB-S. We aim to determine whether
the modified version represents an improvement to the existing version by examining: acceptability (missing data),
distribution properties (ceiling and floor effects), convergent validity and known-groups validity. The results will provide
important information to EuroQol’s EQ-HWB Working Group, guiding the future direction of the EQ-HWB when moving from
the experimental status to beta and approved version of the EQ-HWB-S.
health, public health, and social care including the impact on patients, social care users, and carers. Since its development,
emerging evidence has indicated areas for improvements in terms of comprehensibility and acceptability. As a result,
modified versions of the EQ-HWB and its short version, the EQ-HWB-S, have been developed that require further testing. The
aim of this study is to examine the performance of the modified EQ-HWB-S among the general public in Australia. This
piggyback study will leverage data collected from an ongoing online survey involving 1,000 members of the general public in
Australia. The primary aim of the survey was to derive a value set for a new informal carer-specific quality of life measure
using discrete choice experiment with duration. The survey contained questions around respondents’ health and sociodemographic characteristics, informal care experience, happiness, the EQ-5D-5L and the EQ-HWB-S, where 500 respondents
randomly completed the current EQ-HWB-S and 500 respondents the modified EQ-HWB-S. We aim to determine whether
the modified version represents an improvement to the existing version by examining: acceptability (missing data),
distribution properties (ceiling and floor effects), convergent validity and known-groups validity. The results will provide
important information to EuroQol’s EQ-HWB Working Group, guiding the future direction of the EQ-HWB when moving from
the experimental status to beta and approved version of the EQ-HWB-S.
| Status | Finished |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 22/05/24 → 22/11/24 |