ArticleQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2016
A single question about a respondent's perceived financial ability to pay monthly bills explains more variance in health utility scores than absolute income and assets questions.
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purposeTo evaluate a general question about ability to meet monthly bills as an alternative to direct questions about income and assets in health utility studies.
methodsWe used data from the National Health Measurement Study-a US nationally representative telephone survey collected in 2005-2006. It included health utility measures (EuroQol-5D-3L, Health Utilities Index Mark 3, Short Form-6D, and Quality of Well-being Index) and household income, assets, and financial ability to meet monthly bills questions. Each utility score was regressed on: income and assets (Model 1); difficulty paying bills (DPB) (Model 2); income, assets, and DPB (Model 3). All models used survey weights and adjusted for demographics and education.
resultsAmong 3666 respondents, as income and assets increased, DPB decreased. The DPB question had fewer missing values (n = 30) than income (n = 311) or assets (n = 373). Model 2 (DPB only) explained more variance in health utility than Model 1 (income and assets only). Including all measures (Model 3) had very modest improvement in R (2), e.g., values were 0.112 (Model 1), 0.166 (Model 2), and 0.175 (Model 3) for EuroQol-5D-3L.
conclusionsThe single question on DPB yields more information and has less missing values than the traditionally used income and assets questions.
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