Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain.
Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
Eur J Health Econ. 2018 Jun;19(5):675-686. doi: 10.1007/s10198-017-0912-8. Epub 2017 Jun 19.
The Health-Related Quality of Life Short Form 6D (HRQoL SF-6D) provides utility values for health status. Utilities generated have a number of potentially valuable applications in economic evaluations and not only to ensure comparability between studies. Reference values can be useful to estimate the effect on patients' HRQoL as a result of interventions in the absence of control groups. Thus, the purpose of this study was to provide normative values in the SF-6D in relation to the Chilean population.
A cross-sectional study was conducted evaluating 5293 people. SF-6D utilities were derived from the SF-12 questions.
Mean SF-6D utility index for the whole sample was 0.74. It was better for men (0.78) than for women (0.71). The ceiling effect was much higher for men (11.16%) than for women (5.31%). Women were more likely to show problems in any dimension than were men.
Chilean population norms for the SF-6D help in the decision-making process around health policies. Men reported higher health status than women in all subcategories analyzed. Likewise, men also reported higher scores than women in overall SF-6D dimensions.
健康相关生命质量简表 6 维度（HRQoL SF-6D）为健康状况提供效用值。生成的效用值在经济评估中有许多潜在的有价值的应用，不仅可以确保研究之间的可比性。参考值可用于估计在没有对照组的情况下干预对患者 HRQoL 的影响。因此，本研究旨在为智利人群提供 SF-6D 的规范值。
进行了一项横断面研究，评估了 5293 人。SF-6D 效用值来自 SF-12 问题。
全样本的平均 SF-6D 效用指数为 0.74。男性（0.78）优于女性（0.71）。男性的天花板效应（11.16%）明显高于女性（5.31%）。女性比男性更容易在任何维度出现问题。
智利人群的 SF-6D 规范值有助于健康政策的决策过程。在分析的所有亚组中，男性报告的健康状况均优于女性。同样，男性在 SF-6D 的所有维度上的得分也高于女性。
