Ökonomisk evaluering av behandling for ungdom med villet egenskade - hvorfor og hvordan?
Sammanfattning
The aim of cost-effectiveness studies is to evalu-
ate whether the costs of a new treatment are
reasonable in relation to treatment effects. Given
limited resources such studies are important for
decision-makers when making priorities with
respect to implementation of new treatments.
Following an intervention study for adolescents
with repeated deliberate self-harm, comparing
dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents
(DBT-A) with standard treatment, the cost-
effectiveness of DBT-A will be evaluated. The
objective of this paper is to outline the method
for evaluation of cost-effectiveness, as well as
discussing the rationale for conducting a cost-
effectiveness study of DBT-A.
Research indicates that adolescents with self-
harm is a patient group with extensive use of
health services, however, that the knowledge of
cost-effectiveness of treatment is sparse. The
intervention study showed that DBT-A was more
effective than standard treatment after a treat-
ment period of 19 weeks (Mehlum et al., 2014),
but that DBT-A also lead to more use of outpati-
ent resources.
Thus, it appears highly relevant to evaluate the
cost-effectiveness of DBT-A. The evaluation will
be conducted over a period of 71 weeks (treat-
ment and follow-up), and will be based on aver-
age total costs per patient (DBT-A vs standard
treatment) and analyses of treatment effects