Measuring and Valuing Health Benefits for Economic Evaluation in Adolescence: An Assessment of the Practicality and Validity of the Child Health Utility 9D in the Australian Adolescent Population

摘要: Abstract Objectives The Child Health Utility 9D (CHU9D) is a new generic preference-based measure of health-related quality life developed for children aged 7 to 11 years. There increasing interest in its potential application adolescents, and previous research has demonstrated that it shows good construct validity here. This article further examines practicality adolescents by comparing with KIDSCREEN-10, short assessing adolescents' well-being. Methods A Web-based survey, including the CHU9D, general health question, questions on presence long-standing illness, disability, or medical conditions, sociodemographic variables, was administered 961 consenting adolescents. face CHU9D were examined, KIDSCREEN-10 compared terms their coverage, correlations between dimensions, overall scores. Results Both measures validity. strongest degree correlation found only dimension common KIDSCREEN (sad). lowest all dimensions "have you had enough time yourself" KIDSCREEN-10. Conclusions findings from this study provide support economic evaluation adolescent care public programs. Further test psychometric performance more diverse clinical samples desirable tests reliability.