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Societal Burden of Clinically Anxious Youth Referred for Treatment: A Cost-of-illness Study

A prevalence-based cost-of-illness study using a societal perspective was conducted to investigate the cost-of-illness in clinically anxious youth aged 8–18 in The Netherlands. Discriminant validity of the cost diary used was obtained by comparing costs of families with an anxious child (n = 118) to...

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Autores principales: Bodden, Denise H. M., Dirksen, Carmen D., Bögels, Susan M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2277450/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18214667
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-007-9194-4
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Dirksen, Carmen D.
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description A prevalence-based cost-of-illness study using a societal perspective was conducted to investigate the cost-of-illness in clinically anxious youth aged 8–18 in The Netherlands. Discriminant validity of the cost diary used was obtained by comparing costs of families with an anxious child (n = 118) to costs of families from the general population (n = 41). To examine the convergent validity, bottom-up acquired costs derived from cost diaries were compared to top-down acquired costs obtained from national registrations. Bottom-up acquired costs measured by means of cost diaries amounted to €2,748 per family of a clinically referred anxious child per annum. Societal costs of families with clinically anxious children were almost 21 times as high compared to families from the general population. With respect to convergent validity, total health care costs using the bottom-up approach from clinically anxious children were quite comparable to those of top-down data of anxious children, although costs within the subcategories differed considerably. Clinical anxiety disorders in childhood cost the Dutch society more than 20 million euros a year. Based on results of discriminate and convergent validity, the cost diary seems a valid method in establishing cost-of-illness in childhood anxiety disorders.
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spelling pubmed-22774502008-04-04 Societal Burden of Clinically Anxious Youth Referred for Treatment: A Cost-of-illness Study Bodden, Denise H. M. Dirksen, Carmen D. Bögels, Susan M. J Abnorm Child Psychol Article A prevalence-based cost-of-illness study using a societal perspective was conducted to investigate the cost-of-illness in clinically anxious youth aged 8–18 in The Netherlands. Discriminant validity of the cost diary used was obtained by comparing costs of families with an anxious child (n = 118) to costs of families from the general population (n = 41). To examine the convergent validity, bottom-up acquired costs derived from cost diaries were compared to top-down acquired costs obtained from national registrations. Bottom-up acquired costs measured by means of cost diaries amounted to €2,748 per family of a clinically referred anxious child per annum. Societal costs of families with clinically anxious children were almost 21 times as high compared to families from the general population. With respect to convergent validity, total health care costs using the bottom-up approach from clinically anxious children were quite comparable to those of top-down data of anxious children, although costs within the subcategories differed considerably. Clinical anxiety disorders in childhood cost the Dutch society more than 20 million euros a year. Based on results of discriminate and convergent validity, the cost diary seems a valid method in establishing cost-of-illness in childhood anxiety disorders. Springer US 2008-01-23 2008-05 /pmc/articles/PMC2277450/ /pubmed/18214667 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-007-9194-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2007
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Societal Burden of Clinically Anxious Youth Referred for Treatment: A Cost-of-illness Study
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title_full Societal Burden of Clinically Anxious Youth Referred for Treatment: A Cost-of-illness Study
title_fullStr Societal Burden of Clinically Anxious Youth Referred for Treatment: A Cost-of-illness Study
title_full_unstemmed Societal Burden of Clinically Anxious Youth Referred for Treatment: A Cost-of-illness Study
title_short Societal Burden of Clinically Anxious Youth Referred for Treatment: A Cost-of-illness Study
title_sort societal burden of clinically anxious youth referred for treatment: a cost-of-illness study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2277450/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18214667
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-007-9194-4
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