@article{17c6aa5e6bf7477bad590123b6c2b9ba,
title = "Cost comparison of five Australasian obesity prevention interventions for children aged from birth to two years",
abstract = "Background: In the absence of rigorous evidence of cost-effectiveness for early childhood obesity prevention interventions, the next-best option may be for decision-makers to consider the relevant costs of interventions when allocating resources. Objectives: This study aimed to estimate systematically the cost of five obesity prevention interventions in children aged 0-2 years, undertaken in research settings in Australia and New Zealand. Methods: A standardised costing protocol informed the costing methodology, ensuring comparability of results across interventions. Micro-costing was undertaken, with intervention costs defined from the funder perspective and valued in 2018 Australian dollars using unit costs from the trials or market rates. Results: Interventions varied widely in their resource use. The total cost per participant ranged from $80 for the CHAT SMS intervention arm (95% UI $77-$82) to $1135 for the Healthy Beginnings intervention (95% UI $1059-$1189). Time costs of personnel delivering interventions contributed >50% of total intervention costs for all included studies. Conclusions: An understanding of the costs associated with intervention delivery modes is important, alongside effectiveness. Telephone delivery may include unexpected costs associated with connection to intervention participants at convenient times. A SMS-based intervention had the lowest delivery cost in this study.",
keywords = "cost, intervention, obesity, prevention",
author = "Vicki Brown and Tan, {Eng J.} and Alison Hayes and Louise Baur and Karen Campbell and Rachael Taylor and Rebecca Byrne and Wen, {Li Ming} and Hesketh, {Kylie D.} and Marjory Moodie",
note = "Funding Information: V.B., E.T., A.H. and M.M. conceived the study. V.B. costed the NOURISH and InFANT studies for this paper, and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. E.T. costed the POI, Healthy Beginnings and CHAT studies. All authors reviewed the manuscript and had final approval of the submitted and published versions. The authors would like to acknowledge Associate Professor Lisa Gold, for cost data collection for the InFANT trial. The authors would also like to acknowledge all study participants in the included trials. All authors are researchers with the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funded Centre for Research Excellence in Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood (APPID1101675). VB is supported by an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. K.D.H. is supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT130100637). Funding Information: V.B., E.T., A.H. and M.M. conceived the study. V.B. costed the NOURISH and InFANT studies for this paper, and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. E.T. costed the POI, Healthy Beginnings and CHAT studies. All authors reviewed the manuscript and had final approval of the submitted and published versions. The authors would like to acknowledge Associate Professor Lisa Gold, for cost data collection for the InFANT trial. The authors would also like to acknowledge all study participants in the included trials. All authors are researchers with the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funded Centre for Research Excellence in Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood (APPID1101675). VB is supported by an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. K.D.H. is supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT130100637). All authors are researchers with the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funded Centre for Research Excellence in Early Prevention of Obesity in Childhood (APPID1101675). The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 World Obesity Federation",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1111/ijpo.12684",
language = "English",
volume = "15",
journal = "Pediatric Obesity",
issn = "2047-6302",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "12",
}
