ArticleAddiction (Abingdon, England)2021
SF-6D utility scores for alcohol use disorder status and alcohol consumption risk levels in the US population.
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- Modeling the impact of a long-term horizon and multiple treatment episodes on estimates of the cost-effectiveness of alcohol treatment in the United States.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Article
- Impact of health risk factors on healthcare resource utilization, work-related outcomes and health-related quality of life of Australians: a population-based longitudinal data analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Alcohol consumption and health-related quality of life in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic: a US national survey.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2022Article
- App-based maintenance treatment for alcohol use disorder after acute inpatient treatment: Study protocol for a multicentre randomized controlled trial.Internet interventions · 2022Article
- Health-related quality of life of alcohol use disorder with co-occurring conditions in the US population.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Article
- Health Utility of Drinkers' Family Members: A Secondary Analysis of a US Population Data Set.MDM policy & practiceArticle
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Abstract
aimsTo estimate US population health utilities for subgroups defined by alcohol use disorder (AUD) status and consumption level.
designCross-sectional survey.
settingCommunity settings in the United States (i.e. excluding institutional settings).
participantsA total of 36,042 adults (age 18+) in non-institutional settings in the United States. MEASUREMENTS: We used 12-item Short Form Survey (SF-12) data from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions-III to calculate mean Short Form-6 dimension (SF-6D) utility scores across World Health Organization alcohol consumption risk levels-very high risk, high risk, medium risk, low risk and an additional abstinent level-for three groups: (1) the general population (n = 36,042), (2) individuals with life-time AUD (n = 9925) and (3) individuals with current AUD (n = 5083), and assessed minimally important differences (MIDs) between consumption levels. Each group is a subset of the previous group.
findingsThe general population's mean SF-6D utility was higher than that of individuals with life-time or current AUD across all consumption risk levels (0.79 versus 0.76 for both AUD groups). For all groups, SF-6D utilities increased as consumption risk level decreased to non-abstinent levels, and reducing consumption from very high risk to any lower level was associated with a statistically significant and meaningful improvement in utility. For individuals with life-time or current AUD, becoming abstinent from high-, medium- and low-risk levels was associated with significantly and meaningfully worse utilities.
conclusionsHigher alcohol consumption risk levels appear to be associated with lower health index scores for the general population and individuals with a history of alcohol use disorder, meaning that higher alcohol consumption is associated with worse health-related quality of life.
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