Journal article
Health-Related Quality of Life in People Living with Psychotic Illness and Factors Associated with Its Variation
AL Neil, VJ Carr, A Mackinnon, DL Foley, VA Morgan
Value in Health | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2018
Abstract
Objectives: To establish whether the four-dimensional Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL-4D) produces robust utility values in adults with psychotic illness, and identify health inequalities compared with the general population. Methods: The AQoL-4D was completed by 1613 individuals with an International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, psychotic illness in the 2010 Australian National Survey of Psychosis. Utilities were assessed for this sample and 20 subgroups, and were compared with general population norms. Modified Cohen d was used as an index of effect size. Utilities were collapsed into 10 health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) bands or decades. Results: HRQOL in people wi..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This survey was funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing under a contract to The University of Western Australia. The study sponsor had a role in the design of the original survey but did not have any role in the collection of the study data, in the design or interpretation of the data analysis reported here, in the writing of this article, or in the decision to submit this article for publication.