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Measuring health-related quality of life in the general population and Roma communities in Romania: study protocol for two cross-sectional studies

INTRODUCTION: The importance of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is increasing and many healthcare authorities recommend the use of measures that account for both mortality and morbidity. This study will determine, for the first time in Romania, value sets for EuroQoL-five-dimensions-3-level (...

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Autores principales: Olariu, Elena, Paveliu, Marian Sorin, Baican, Eugen, Oluboyede, Yemi, Vale, Luke, Niculescu-Aron, Ileana Gabriela
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6701682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31427330
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029067
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Paveliu, Marian Sorin
Baican, Eugen
Oluboyede, Yemi
Vale, Luke
Niculescu-Aron, Ileana Gabriela
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Paveliu, Marian Sorin
Baican, Eugen
Oluboyede, Yemi
Vale, Luke
Niculescu-Aron, Ileana Gabriela
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description INTRODUCTION: The importance of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is increasing and many healthcare authorities recommend the use of measures that account for both mortality and morbidity. This study will determine, for the first time in Romania, value sets for EuroQoL-five-dimensions-3-level (EQ-5D-3L) and EQ-5D-5L questionnaires and their population norms (study 1). It will also compare the HRQoL (measured with EQ-5D-5L) of Roma communities in Romania with that of the general population (study 2). METHODS AND ANALYSIS: Cross-sectional studies of face-to-face interviews conducted in representative samples of the Romanian general population and Romanian Roma communities. 1614 non-institutionalised adults older than 18 years will be interviewed using a computer-assisted interview for study 1. Participants will complete EQ-5D-3L and 5L, 13 composite time trade-off tasks (cTTO), 7 discrete choice experiment questions (DCE) and sociodemographic questions. For study 2, 606 non-institutionalised self-identified Roma people older than 18 years will be interviewed using a pencil-and-paper interview. Participants will complete EQ-5D-5L and the same sociodemographic questions as for study 1. The 3L value set will be estimated using econometric models and the cTTO data. cTTO and DCE data will be used for the 5L value set. Population norms will be reported by age and gender. The ORs for reporting different levels of problems and the most common health states in the population will be estimated. For study 2, t-tests and analysis of variance will be used to explore differences between groups in HRQoL and for each EQ-5D. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Ethics approval was given by the National Bioethics Committee of Medicines and Medical Devices Romania and Newcastle University’s Research Ethics Committee. Results will be published in peer-reviewed journals, presented at scientific conferences and on the project’s website. The EQ-5D-5L anonymised datasets will be deposited in a centralised repository. Two public workshops with local authorities, physicians and patients’ associations will be held.
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spelling pubmed-67016822019-09-02 Measuring health-related quality of life in the general population and Roma communities in Romania: study protocol for two cross-sectional studies Olariu, Elena Paveliu, Marian Sorin Baican, Eugen Oluboyede, Yemi Vale, Luke Niculescu-Aron, Ileana Gabriela BMJ Open Health Economics INTRODUCTION: The importance of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is increasing and many healthcare authorities recommend the use of measures that account for both mortality and morbidity. This study will determine, for the first time in Romania, value sets for EuroQoL-five-dimensions-3-level (EQ-5D-3L) and EQ-5D-5L questionnaires and their population norms (study 1). It will also compare the HRQoL (measured with EQ-5D-5L) of Roma communities in Romania with that of the general population (study 2). METHODS AND ANALYSIS: Cross-sectional studies of face-to-face interviews conducted in representative samples of the Romanian general population and Romanian Roma communities. 1614 non-institutionalised adults older than 18 years will be interviewed using a computer-assisted interview for study 1. Participants will complete EQ-5D-3L and 5L, 13 composite time trade-off tasks (cTTO), 7 discrete choice experiment questions (DCE) and sociodemographic questions. For study 2, 606 non-institutionalised self-identified Roma people older than 18 years will be interviewed using a pencil-and-paper interview. Participants will complete EQ-5D-5L and the same sociodemographic questions as for study 1. The 3L value set will be estimated using econometric models and the cTTO data. cTTO and DCE data will be used for the 5L value set. Population norms will be reported by age and gender. The ORs for reporting different levels of problems and the most common health states in the population will be estimated. For study 2, t-tests and analysis of variance will be used to explore differences between groups in HRQoL and for each EQ-5D. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Ethics approval was given by the National Bioethics Committee of Medicines and Medical Devices Romania and Newcastle University’s Research Ethics Committee. Results will be published in peer-reviewed journals, presented at scientific conferences and on the project’s website. The EQ-5D-5L anonymised datasets will be deposited in a centralised repository. Two public workshops with local authorities, physicians and patients’ associations will be held. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6701682/ /pubmed/31427330 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029067 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Oluboyede, Yemi
Vale, Luke
Niculescu-Aron, Ileana Gabriela
Measuring health-related quality of life in the general population and Roma communities in Romania: study protocol for two cross-sectional studies
title Measuring health-related quality of life in the general population and Roma communities in Romania: study protocol for two cross-sectional studies
title_full Measuring health-related quality of life in the general population and Roma communities in Romania: study protocol for two cross-sectional studies
title_fullStr Measuring health-related quality of life in the general population and Roma communities in Romania: study protocol for two cross-sectional studies
title_full_unstemmed Measuring health-related quality of life in the general population and Roma communities in Romania: study protocol for two cross-sectional studies
title_short Measuring health-related quality of life in the general population and Roma communities in Romania: study protocol for two cross-sectional studies
title_sort measuring health-related quality of life in the general population and roma communities in romania: study protocol for two cross-sectional studies
topic Health Economics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6701682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31427330
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029067
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