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ArticleHealth economics review2021

Multiple effects health economic evaluation of the Ahead of The Game Study for mental health promotion in sporting club communities.

Simon Eckermann, Nikki McCaffrey, Utsana Tonmukayakul, Christian Swann, Stewart Vella

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Article in Health economics review, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from 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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. A Systems Theory of Mental Health in Recreational Sport.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Simon EckermannSchool of Health and Society, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia. seckerma@uow.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1629-394X
Nikki McCaffreyDeakin Health Economics, Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
Utsana TonmukayakulDeakin Health Economics, Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
Christian SwannFaculty of Health, Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, Australia.
Stewart VellaSchool of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia.
Deakin University · AUUniversity of Wollongong · AUSouthern Cross University · AU

Funding

Movember Foundation Australian Mental Health Initiative grant
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThis study evaluates the Ahead Of The Game (AOTG) mental health promotion strategy for adolescent males relative to usual practice in team based sporting club community settings, allowing for joint incremental effects across 13 dimensions and 5 domains alongside intervention implementation costs.

methodsAnalysis is undertaken between matched communities with difference in differences analysis of joint multiple pre-post effect changes alongside implementation costs employing radar plots in cost-disutility space. A robust bootstrapping method allowed including all observed change in effect data from 343 AOTG and 273 control arm participants across 13 effect dimensions.

resultsTriangulation across joint evidence shows mean incremental effects favoured AOTG in all dimensions (10/13 significantly at 5% level) and in simple aggregation to each of five pre-specified 5 domains (each significant at < 1% level) and global measures (significant at 0.001% level), while mean AOTG implementation costs were conservatively estimated as $37.47 per participant.

conclusionThe AOTG strategy was found to represent an effective mental health promotion strategy across all domains and globally with associated significant potential for downstream health system cost savings to offset against modest implementation costs. Evaluation methods extend conventional cost-effectiveness analysis to enable robust joint presentation and triangulation under uncertainty of multiple effect dimensions alongside costs.

trial registrationANZCTR, ACTRN12617000709347 . Registered 17th May 2017.

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Health promotion evaluationMental health strategiesMultiple effect domains and dimensionsMultiple outcomes cost effectiveness analysisNet benefit correspondence theorem

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PMID34351526
PMCPMC8344206
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