Economic evaluation of dyslexia intervention

Moll, K (通讯作者),Ludwig Maximilians Univ Hosp Munich, Dept Child & Adolescent Psychiat Psychotherapy &, Nussbaumstr 5a, D-80336 Munich, Germany.
2023-2
In many countries, intervention costs are not covered by public health care. A critical basis for deciding whether an intervention is covered or not is to analyse the relation between benefits and costs of the intervention, and to quantify the consequential costs. In this study, a cost-utility analysis was computed to investigate the costs of individualized dyslexia intervention while quantifying the benefit in terms of health-related quality of life in a sample of 36 individuals with dyslexia. In addition, educational outcomes and costs of untreated dyslexia for the society were estimated using information for class repetition, school success, and unemployment rates from previous studies and official statistics. A significant increase in quality of life with medium effect sizes was found across all quality-of-life measures. Increases in quality of life were domain-specific, thus occurring specifically in those domains that are affected by learning disorders. The cost-utility ratio was 9,782 Euros per quality adjusted life years (QALYs), which is in line with similar therapy forms, such as speech therapy. The loss of productivity for untreated dyslexia in the German population was estimated for class repetition and reduced income due to lower school degrees. The cost-utility analysis and the calculation of consequential costs suggest that the dyslexia intervention is cost-effective.
DYSLEXIA
卷号:29|期号:1|页码:4-21
ISSN:1076-9242|收录类别:SSCI
语种
英语
来源机构
University of Munich; European Business School (EBS) University
资助机构
Projekt DEAL
资助信息
We thank the children/adolescents and their parents whose participation made this study possible. Further, we thank the therapists for supporting this study and the German Dyslexia Association (Bundesverband Legasthenie und Dyskalkulie e. V.) for advertising the study and for providing the data from their survey. Thanks to Carolina Silberbauer and Veronika Jager who gave assistance at various times. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
被引频次(WOS)
0
被引频次(其他)
0
180天使用计数
5
2013以来使用计数
5
EISSN
1099-0909
出版年
2023-2
DOI
10.1002/dys.1728
学科领域
循证教育学
关键词
cost-utility analysis dyslexia intervention benefits intervention costs quality of life
WOS学科分类
Education, Special Psychology, Educational Rehabilitation