Measuring benefits of opioid misuse treatment for economic evaluation: health-related quality of life of opioid-dependent individuals and their spouses as assessed by a sample of the US population.

摘要: AIMS To understand how the general public views quality of life effects opioid misuse and use disorder on an individual his/her spouse, measured in terms used economic evaluations. DESIGN Cross-sectional internet survey a US population-representative respondent panel conducted December 2013-January 2014. SETTING United States. PARTICIPANTS A total 2054 randomly selected adults; 51.1% male (before weighting). MEASUREMENTS Mean (95% confidence interval) median health 'utility' for six treatment outcomes: active injection misuse; prescription methadone maintenance therapy at initiation when stabilized treatment; buprenorphine stabilized. Utility is numerical representation health-related evaluations to 'adjust' estimated survival include peoples' preferences states. Utilities are determined by surveying population estimate value they assign particular states scale where 0 = the being dead 1.0 = the perfect health. Spouse spillover utility assigned spouse who state. FINDINGS ranged from 0.574 [95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.538, 0.611] 0.766 CI = 0.738, 0.795), with other between. Female respondents higher than did males (P < 0.05); all not differ gender. spousal utilities were significantly lower 1.0 but mostly utility, similar between female respondents. CONCLUSIONS In opinion public, results worse misuse, therapy. Spouses negatively affected their partner's early treatment.