A study of the relationship between health and subjective well-being in parkinson's disease patients

Abstract

Objectives Governments are turning their attention to evidence on subjective measures of well-being to inform policy decisions. In the context of health, there is, therefore, growing interest in understanding how measures of health-related quality of life relate to subjective well-being and whether subjective well-being could provide a basis for resource allocation decisions in the future. This study investigates the relationship between health-related quality of life, as measured by the EuroQol five-dimensional (EQ-5D) questionnaire, and subjective well-being in Parkinson's disease. Methods A paper questionnaire including the EQ-5D questionnaire, four key subjective well-being questions tak..