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Cost-effectiveness of child-focused and parent-focused interventions in a child anxiety prevention program
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Journal of Anxiety Disorders . Mar2012, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p287-296. 10p. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Abstract: In this study, the cost-effectiveness of three indicated anxiety prevention strategies was examined from a societal perspective. Children (aged 8–12) were recruited via primary schools, selecting children scoring as high-anxious on an anxiety screening questionnaire. Participating children and their parents were randomized to a child – a parent-focused, or non-intervention group. All groups completed a diagnostic interview and standardized cost-diaries at pretest, and 1- and 2-year follow-up. Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios per ‘ADIS improved’ child (based on diagnostic information) were calculated and cost-effectiveness acceptability curves and frontiers were plotted. The base-case and most secondary analyses showed it would be cost-effective to offer high-anxious children an intervention, and the parent-focused intervention to be the optimal strategy at lower monetary threshold values than the child-focused intervention and when parents were anxious. The child-focused intervention was dominant when analyses were performed from a healthcare perspective, for boys, and for children of grades 7–8 of primary school. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08876185
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Anxiety Disorders
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 71369115
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2011.12.008