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@ARTICLE{Bailey:280235,
author = {Bailey, Cate and Peasgood, Tessa and Michalowsky, Bernhard
and Engel, Lidia},
title = {{T}he {P}sychometric {P}erformance of the {EQ} {H}ealth and
{W}ellbeing in {C}aregivers of {P}ersons {L}iving {W}ith
{D}ementia.},
journal = {Value in health},
volume = {28},
number = {8},
issn = {1098-3015},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {DZNE-2025-00913},
pages = {1221 - 1230},
year = {2025},
abstract = {The EQ Health and Wellbeing (EQ-HWB) is a generic
instrument recently developed for use in economic
evaluations across public health and social care, including
impacts on caregivers. Providing informal care to a person
living with dementia can significantly affect the health and
well-being of carers. However, it is unclear to what extent
the EQ-HWB can capture such impacts. We aimed to investigate
the psychometric properties of the EQ-HWB compared with
other available instruments in caregivers of persons living
with dementia.An online survey included demographics,
informal care-related questions, and quality-of-life
measures suitable for caregivers (C-DEMQOL and CarerQol) and
the 25-item EQ-HWB. We used the UK pilot value set for the
index scores for the EQ-HWB-S (9-item short form). The
psychometric properties of the EQ-HWB and EQ-HWB-S were
assessed in terms of acceptability (missing data), response
distribution, known-groups validity analysis using t tests
and one-way ANOVAs (Cohen's d and Eta squared for effect
size), convergent validity (Spearman correlations), and an
exploration of dimensionality using exploratory factor
analysis.In known-group validity analysis, the EQ-HWB
instruments performed similarly to the C-DEMQOL in terms of
effect sizes across a range of variables and slightly better
than the CarerQol on some variables. At the item level, 13
of the 25 items could discriminate respondents by caregiving
time and 23 of 25 items by caregivers' general self-reported
health. Most hypothesized correlations in the convergent
validity analysis were found to be above 0.3.Our results
suggest that the EQ-HWB instruments performed well in this
population.},
keywords = {Humans / Psychometrics / Caregivers: psychology / Male /
Female / Dementia: therapy / Dementia: psychology / Quality
of Life / Middle Aged / Aged / Surveys and Questionnaires /
Reproducibility of Results / Adult / United Kingdom / Aged,
80 and over / Health Status / EQ-HWB (Other) / caregivers
(Other) / persons living with dementia (Other) /
psychometric performance (Other) / validation study (Other)},
cin = {AG Michalowsky},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)5000067},
pnm = {353 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF4-353)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-353},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:40350057},
doi = {10.1016/j.jval.2025.04.2168},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/280235},
}