Trial reportSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2009
Putting the 'Q' in depression QALYs: a comparison of utility measurement using EQ-5D and SF-6D health related quality of life measures.
Trial report in Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Cost-effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy compared to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment-resistant severe depression: a decision model.Psychological medicine · 2015Pooled it
- Analysing psychosocial difficulties in depression: a content comparison between systematic literature review and patient perspective.BioMed research international · 2014Pooled it
- The estimation of utility weights in cost-utility analysis for mental disorders: a systematic review.PharmacoEconomics · 2013Pooled it
- Assessing measurement properties of EQ-5D-5L and ICECAP-A in patients with chronic depression in England.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2025Trial
- Factors related to the improvement in quality of life for depressed inpatients treated with fluoxetine.BMC psychiatry · 2017Trial
- Trial
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of an occupational therapy-led lifestyle approach and routine general practitioner's care for panic disorder.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2010Trial
- Cost-Effectiveness of Universal Routine Depression Screening for Adolescents in Primary Care.JAMA health forum · 2025Article
- Quality-of-life measurement in depression trials: A consumerist relic.Health (London, England : 1997) · 2023Article
- Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Major Depression and Anxiety Disorders: A Health Technology Assessment.Ontario health technology assessment series · 2019Article
- Psychotherapy for Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A Health Technology Assessment.Ontario health technology assessment series · 2017Review
- The cost-effectiveness of PHQ screening and collaborative care for depression in New York City.PloS one · 2017Article
- Modelling the cost-effectiveness of preventing major depression in general practice patients.Psychological medicine · 2014Article
- The cost-effectiveness of depression treatment for co-occurring disorders: a clinical trial.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2014Article
- End-of-Life Care Interventions: An Economic Analysis.Ontario health technology assessment series · 2014Review
- Comparison of three societally derived health-state classification values among older African Americans with depressive symptoms.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2013Article
- A comparison of four different approaches to measuring health utility in depressed patients.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2013Article
- Development and validation of a 6-day standard for the identification of frequent mental distress.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2011Article
- Quality of life, health status, and depression: comparison between adolescents and adults after the Fontan procedure with healthy counterparts.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundGeneric health preference measures that capture quality of life improvements in depression are important for economic analysis of new technologies.
aimTo compare two widely used preference measures, the EQ-5D and SF-6D, in terms of their dimensions and health utility values.
methodEQ-5D and SF-6D data collected from 114 patients with depression, who participated in a cluster, randomised controlled trial to evaluate a collaborative care intervention in UK, primary care practices. Utilities were examined across the whole sample and by level of depression severity using the PHQ-9.
resultsDepression was associated with disutility at baseline. At 3 month follow-up mean utility increased 0.147 for EQ-5D and 0.082 for SF-6D. Health gains were observed in patients in remission from depression and those with the mildest level of depression severity.
conclusionsBoth generic preference measures were sensitive to health gains in depression within a relatively short follow-up period; larger health gain was observed for the EQ-5D.
Indexed as
Identifiers
19011721What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.