Community Dental Health

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Cover Date:
September 2015
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0265 539X
Vol:
32
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3

Comparing UK, USA and Australian values for EQ-5D as a health utility measure of oral health

Community Dental Health (2015) 32, 180–184 Received 31 July 2014; Accepted 7 January 2015

doi:10.1922/CDH_3488Brennan05

Comparing UK, USA and Australian values for EQ-5D as a health utility measure of oral health
D.S. Brennan and D.N. Teusner

Objectives: Using generic measures to examine outcomes of oral disorders can add additional information relating to health utility. However, different algorithms are available to generate health states. The aim was to assess UK-, US- and Australian-based algorithms for the EuroQol (EQ-5D) in relation to their discriminative and convergent validity. Methods: Data were collected from adults in Australia aged 30-61 years by mailed survey in 2009-10, including the EQ-5D and a range of self-reported oral health variables, and self-rated oral and general health. Results: Responses were collected from n=1,093 persons (response rate 39.1%). UK-based EQ-5D estimates were lower (0.85) than the USA and Australian estimates (0.91). EQ-5D was associated (p<0.01) with all seven oral health variables, with differences in utility scores ranging from 0.03 to 0.06 for the UK, from 0.04 to 0.07 for the USA, and from 0.05 to 0.08 for the Australian-based estimates. The effect sizes (ESs) of the associations with all seven oral health variables were similar for the UK (ES=0.26 to 0.49), USA (ES=0.31 to 0.48) and Australian-based (ES=0.31 to 0.46) estimates. EQ-5D was correlated with global dental health for the UK (rho=0.29), USA (rho=0.30) and Australian-based estimates (rho=0.30), and correlations with global general health were the same (rho=0.42) for the UK, USA and Australian-based estimates. Conclusions: EQ-5D exhibited equivalent discriminative validity and convergent validity in relation to oral health variables for the UK, USA and Australian-based estimates.

Key words: oral health, quality of life, health utility, validity, EQ-5D, Australia, UK, USA

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D.S. Brennan, D.N. Teusner

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