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Psychosocial intervention has been found to be related to subsequent reductions in health care use. Studies generally measure
this “offset effect” by combining medical use categories into one outcome variable, such as outpatient doctor visits. However,
using a general outcome variable may obscure more specific patterns of reduction. In an effort to identify potential “targets”
for mental health intervention, outpatient care for health screening, illness visits, laboratory/X-ray, and urgent care were
considered. Health care use reductions were most prominent for high utilizers and were found across a number of different
types of outpatient care. With high utilizers, those who participated in MFT showed significant reductions of 68% for health
screening visits, 38% for illness visits, 56% for laboratory/X-ray visits, and 78% for urgent care visits. 相似文献
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Marianna Szabó 《Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment》2009,31(3):235-245
This study investigated developmental differences in the relationship of probability and cost estimates to worrying. Adults,
younger children (M age = 8.67 years) and older children (M age = 11.06 years) rated the extent to which they worry about a list of negative social and physical outcomes and provided
subjective probability and cost estimates for the same outcomes. Adults reported worrying more about social outcomes and rated
them as less ‘bad’ (or costly) but more likely to occur than physical outcomes. Unlike adults, children in both age groups
reported worrying more about physical outcomes. However, similar to adults, they also rated social outcomes as less ‘bad’
but more likely to occur than physical outcomes. Regression analyses showed that probability ratings were the best predictors
of worry in adults, both probability and cost ratings equally predicted worry in older children, but only cost ratings predicted
worry in younger children.
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Christina M. Gilliam Gretchen J. Diefenbach David F. Tolin 《Behaviour research and therapy》2010,48(11):1144-1149
This study evaluated the effectiveness and treatment costs associated with a stepped care protocol of exposure and response prevention (EX/RP) for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In the current open trial, patients (N = 14) began with self-directed EX/RP and minimal therapist guidance over the course of six weeks (Step 1). During this phase of treatment, no therapist-directed exposures were conducted. Those who did not respond optimally to Step 1 went on to Step 2, which consisted of 15 sessions of twice-weekly therapist-directed exposures. Results of this study show promise for stepped care utilizing EX/RP for some patients with OCD, with a response rate of 88% and a 60% reduction on the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) score among treatment completers. Significant improvements were found in Y-BOCS from pre to post-treatment for both Step 1 and Step 2 completers. Forty-five percent of participants (n = 5) responded following completion of Step 1, resulting in reduced cost of treatment among these participants. All participants who responded to Step 1 maintained acute gains during the brief follow-up period. Limitations include a small sample size and high attrition rate. 相似文献
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A prevalence-based cost-of-illness study using a societal perspective was conducted to investigate the cost-of-illness in
clinically anxious youth aged 8–18 in The Netherlands. Discriminant validity of the cost diary used was obtained by comparing
costs of families with an anxious child (n = 118) to costs of families from the general population (n = 41). To examine the convergent validity, bottom-up acquired costs derived from cost diaries were compared to top-down acquired
costs obtained from national registrations. Bottom-up acquired costs measured by means of cost diaries amounted to €2,748
per family of a clinically referred anxious child per annum. Societal costs of families with clinically anxious children were
almost 21 times as high compared to families from the general population. With respect to convergent validity, total health
care costs using the bottom-up approach from clinically anxious children were quite comparable to those of top-down data of
anxious children, although costs within the subcategories differed considerably. Clinical anxiety disorders in childhood cost
the Dutch society more than 20 million euros a year. Based on results of discriminate and convergent validity, the cost diary
seems a valid method in establishing cost-of-illness in childhood anxiety disorders. 相似文献
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Two studies with college student participants (n's=262, 239) examined the relation between perceptions of threat (i.e., perceptions of the probabilities and costs of future undesirable outcomes) and: (a) worry; and (b) hypothesized antecedents of perceived threat. In both studies, higher levels of worrying were associated with higher perceived probability and cost. In Study 2, the association between perceived threat and worrying remained even when taking into account maladaptive worry beliefs and the desire for predictability; in fact, the relation between worrying and worry beliefs and desire for predictability were moderated by perceptions of threat. Higher levels of perceived probability were associated with perceiving oneself and others less favorably, whereas higher levels of perceived cost were associated with higher standards. 相似文献
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Gregory S. Chasson Gerald E. Harris Wendy J. Neely 《Journal of child and family studies》2007,16(3):401-413
The financial implications of the increased prevalence of autism, though rarely discussed, will be extremely important to
society. We compared the costs associated with 18 years of special education to the costs associated with the implementation
of an average of 3 years of Discrete Trial Training as an Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) in an effort to minimize
the need for special education. Our results indicate that the state of Texas would save $208,500 per child across eighteen
years of education with EIBI. When applied to the conservative estimate of 10,000 children with autism in Texas, the State
would save a total of $2.09 billion with EIBI. Implications for taxpayers, policymakers, and treatment are discussed. 相似文献
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The Impact of Couple Therapy on Service Utilization among Military Veterans: The Moderating Roles of Pretreatment Service Utilization and Premature Termination 下载免费PDF全文
Couple therapy reduces relational and individual distress and may affect utilization of other health services, particularly among higher service utilizers. Although average decreases in service utilization are predicted among recipients of couple therapy, low utilizers of services may appropriately increase use. The relationship between couple therapy and service utilization was examined among a sample of 179 U.S. military veterans who received treatment in Veterans Affairs (VA) specialty couple therapy clinics. Consistent with hypotheses, overall mental and physical health visits decreased from the 12 months preceding couple therapy to the 12 months following treatment. Moderator analyses showed that decreases were greatest among individuals who were rated by their therapist as having completed a full course of couple therapy, suggesting that change was attributable to intervention. Pretreatment service utilization also moderated observed change—higher utilizers’ use of services decreased substantially, whereas lower utilizers’ slightly increased. Cost analyses revealed that the estimated per person mean cost in our sample decreased by $930.33 in the year following compared to the year prior to couple therapy, as per 2008 VA cost data. As service utilization data were only available for one partner and only for 1 year posttherapy, the true magnitude of this effect may be underestimated. Our findings are relevant to policy makers as they demonstrate that couple therapy reduces average service utilization and associated costs and addresses calls for analyses of cost effectiveness of systemic interventions. 相似文献
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Valuing Our Communities: Ethical Considerations for Economic Evaluation of Community‐Based Prevention 下载免费PDF全文
Restricted public budgets and increasing efforts to link the impact of community interventions to public savings have increased the use of economic evaluation. While this type of evaluation can be important for program planning, it also raises important ethical issues about how we value the time of local stakeholders who support community interventions. In particular, researchers navigate issues of scientific accuracy, institutional inequality, and research utility in their pursuit of even basic cost estimates. We provide an example of how we confronted these issues when estimating the costs of a large‐scale community‐based intervention. Principles for valuing community members’ time and conducting economic evaluations of community programs are discussed. 相似文献
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Rebekah E. Smith R. Reed Hunt 《Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition》2014,21(4):411-431
Remembering to perform an action in the future, called prospective memory, often shows age-related differences in favor of young adults when tested in the laboratory. Recently Smith, Horn, and Bayen (2012; Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 19, 495) embedded a PM task in an ongoing color-matching task and manipulated the difficulty of the ongoing task by varying the number of colors on each trial of the task. Smith et al. found that age-related differences in PM performance (lower PM performance for older adults relative to young adults) persisted even when older adults could perform the ongoing task as well or better than the young adults. The current study investigates a possible explanation for the pattern of results reported by Smith et al. by including a manipulation of task emphasis: for half of the participants the prospective memory task was emphasize, while for the other half the ongoing color-matching task was emphasized. Older adults performed a 4-color version of the ongoing color-matching task, while young adults completed either the 4-color or a more difficult 6-color version of the ongoing task. Older adults failed to perform as well as the young adults on the prospective memory task regardless of task emphasis, even when older adults were performing as well or better than the young adults on the ongoing color-matching task. The current results indicate that the lack of an effect of ongoing task load on prospective memory task performance is not due to a perception that one or the other task is more important than the other. 相似文献