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Table 2 Costs and effectiveness outcomes of the Active Plus intervention conditions at 12 months follow-up

From: Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of a Web-based or print-delivered tailored intervention to promote physical activity among adults aged over fifty: an economic evaluation of the Active Plus intervention

 

Mean costs (SD) 12 months

95% CI

Cost category

Unit cost pricea

C

PB

PE

WB

WE

PB-C

PE-C

WB-C

WE-C

PE-PB

WE-WB

PB-WB

PE-WE

Intervention costs

-

0

25.77

31.21

15.53

18.83

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Health care costs

 

1682 (200)

1423 (131)

1320 (162)

1437 (129)

1406 (189)

-739 to 181

-873 to 122

-733 to 201

-813 to 267

-508 to 315

-452 to 434

-372 to 349

-593 to 397

General practitioner

29.02b

126 (11)

122 (7)

117 (9)

125 (9)

143 (11)

-29 to 21

-36 to 18

-30 to 25

-13 to 48

-25 to 17

-8 to 47

-25 to 19

-55 to 1

Life style coach

27.98b

16 (4)

16 (4)

18 (5)

20 (5)

33 (10)

-12 to 12

-12 to 15

-8 to 18

-2 to 39

-11 to 15

-8 to 35

-17 to 8

-38 to 5

Paramedical care

35.96b

298 (36)

285 (34)

191 (23)

281 (32)

233 (32)

-111 to 85

-195 to -27*

-112 to 80

-158 to 28

-175 to -14*

-137 to 40

-87 to 95

-121 to 36

Mental health care

82.92b

48 (19)

58 (31)

20 (7)

67 (20)

38 (11)

-53 to 92

-72 to 8

-36 to 72

-55 to 30

-112 to 7

-76 to 14

-73 to 71

-43 to 6

Company doctor

72.48c

15 (4)

14 (5)

11 (4)

23 (6)

7 (3)

-13 to 12

-14 to 7

-6 to 23

-18 to 1

-15 to 9

-30 to -3*

-25 to 7

-4 to 14

Social worker

67.37b

4 (2)

10 (8)

12 (9)

28 (14)

5 (2)

-5 to 25

-5 to 29

1 to 57*

-5 to 8

-20 to 25

-55 to 1

-52 to 12

-7 to 29

Practice nurse

15.81b

5 (1)

4 (2)

10 (4)

12 (3)

10 (2)

-4 to 3

-2 to 15

2 to 15*

0 to 10

-2 to 16

-12 to 5

-17 to -2*

-8 to 11

Medical specialist

74.62b

135 (11)

120 (11)

130 (11)

138 (11)

150 (14)

-44 to 15

-35 to 27

-27 to 34

-18 to 50

-21 to 41

-22 to 47

-48 to 13

-57 to 15

Hospital admission

473.65b

418 (75)

366 (98)

374 (114)

291 (56)

427 (131)

-285 to 201

-288 to 243

-317 to 52

-258 to 334

-281 to 306

-105 to 444

-128 to 307

-401 to 288

Medication

Varyingd

346 (56)

271 (29)

329 (84)

340 (70)

308 (98)

-208 to 40

-195 to 201

-177 to 184

-229 to 215

-84 to 258

-256 to 229

-234 to 60

-249 to 266

Paid homecare

35.84b

270 (119)

172 (28)

116 (28)

99 (31)

88 (20)

-379 to 93

-428 to 34

-451 to 19

-461 to 2

-134 to 21

-87 to 59

-8 to 156

-39 to 97

Other health care

Varyinge

24 (14)

5 (2)

5 (2)

24 (13)

6 (2)

-51 to 2

-50 to 2

-39 to 38

-50 to 4

-5 to 5

-49 to 2

-50 to 1

-6 to 4

Participant & family costs

 

567 (47)

604 (57)

631 (70)

648 (68)

585 (59)

-106 to 187

-99 to 231

-76 to 244

-128 to 169

-152 to 209

-243 to 112

-215 to 120

-134 to 232

Physical activity costs

-

371 (30)

387 (39)

363 (33)

349 (36)

285 (30)

-81 to 111

-94 to 81

-115 to 75

-169 to -1*

-126 to 77

-158 to 27

-69 to 140

-8 to 167

Travel costs

Varyingb

75 (6)

71 (6)

61 (5)

79 (6)

74 (6)

-19 to 12

-28 to 1

-12 to 21

-18 to 16

-25 to 5

-21 to 13

-24 to 9

-29 to 3

Unpaid homecare

12.80b

126 (32)

155 (40)

218 (63)

230 (57)

235 (51)

-69 to 135

-41 to 242

-16 to 236

-9 to 229

-80 to 219

-154 to 146

-218 to 54

-172 to 147

Productivity losses

-

485 (117)

369 (118)

296 (102)

986 (246)

526 (159)

-443 to 214

-498 to 113

12 to 1068*

-334 to 448

-383 to 230

-1047 to 99

-1179 to -124*

-632 to 114

Societal costs

-

2737 (258)

2448 (204)

2306 (223)

3052 (301)

2516 (273)

-936 to 345

-1098 to 235

-451 to 1090

-966 to 521

-737 to 454

-1338 to 256

-1339 to 100

-912 to 444

 

Mean effects (SD) 12 months

 

Effectiveness outcomes

C

PB

PE

WB

WE

F

P

- MET hours PA/week

-2.2 (29.1)

3.0 (28.2)

2.7 (27.9)

0.7 (27.8)

-0.4 (31.6)

2.39

0.05

- Minutes MVPA/week

-72.1 (500.9)

3.1 (533.8)

37.7 (506.1)

-32.8 (445.2)

-39.8 (522.7)

2.96

0.02

- days with sufficient PA

0.1 (1.7)

0.4 (1.7)

0.5 (1.6)

0.0 (1.4)

0.2 (1.3)

5.87

0.00

QALY-EQ-5D-3L

0.884 (0.164)

0.876 (0.155)

0.883 (0.160)

0.883 (0.162)

0.888 (0.165)

0.339

0.85

  1. C = control group, PB = printed basic intervention, PE = printed environmental intervention, WB = Web-based basic intervention, WE = Web-based environmental intervention.
  2. aUnit cost prices are indexed to 2011 costs, based on consumer price index [44]; bbased on Dutch guidelines [27]; cbased on Collective Agreement for company doctors in the Netherlands (2002); dadapted from www.medicijnkosten.nl based on Defined Daily Dose [43]; eadapted from several resources including Hakkaart - van Roijen et al. [27], detailed specification available upon request; *Significant difference (the 95% CI does not include zero).