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Mulvaney-Day, Norah E.

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Estimating the value of mental health treatment outcomes: An application of the willingness to pay approach.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Estimating the value of mental health treatment outcomes: An application of the willingness to pay approach./
Author:	Mulvaney-Day, Norah E.
Description:	235 p.
Notes:	Chairperson: Thomas G. McGuire.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-05A.
Subject:	Economics, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3052319
ISBN:	0493666915

Estimating the value of mental health treatment outcomes: An application of the willingness to pay approach.
Mulvaney-Day, Norah E.

Estimating the value of mental health treatment outcomes: An application of the willingness to pay approach. - 235 p.

Chairperson: Thomas G. McGuire.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brandeis University, The Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare, 2002.

An important consideration in understanding the costs of serious mental illness to the family is the psychosocial effects, or intangible effects of the illness. The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of applying the willingness to pay (WTP) approach to measure these intangible effects for a sample of persons (n = 628) who have family members with serious mental illness.

ISBN: 0493666915Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017424
Economics, General.

Estimating the value of mental health treatment outcomes: An application of the willingness to pay approach.
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520 $a An important consideration in understanding the costs of serious mental illness to the family is the psychosocial effects, or intangible effects of the illness. The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of applying the willingness to pay (WTP) approach to measure these intangible effects for a sample of persons (n = 628) who have family members with serious mental illness.
520 $a A mail survey was developed and administered to members of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), a family advocacy and support group. Survey development procedures included a cognitive evaluation, a formal group pretest with members of the target group and extensive expert review. The final questionnaire collected information on respondent expenses on behalf of the family member and the respondent's WTP for a medication that significantly improved the family member's functioning.
520 $a Cost data revealed that 67.2% of the sample contributed some level of financial support in the last 30 days, with no significant difference in expenses for mental health treatment between respondents whose family members lived at home and those who lived independently. An analysis of the study response rate, WTP item non-response rate and outliers found no evidence of irrational or protest responses to the WTP question. Significant correlations between WTP and income, savings and education supported the internal consistency of the WTP value. Those respondents whose family members lived at home were also WTP more for the medication than those who lived independently. Consistency checks with the amount of money currently being spent found that some respondents were WTP less than they were already spending for their family member. However, regression analysis revealed a positive and significant relationship between expenses and WTP, indicating overall validity of the construct.
520 $a Theoretically, WTP varied logically with key variables, suggesting that it could be used as a measure of preference in other areas of mental health policy research and with other stakeholder groups. Some inconsistency between WTP and expense variables indicated that more research is necessary before the actual monetary values obtained using WTP can be applied as measures of the intangible effects of serious mental illness.
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