New Project - Valuing health benefits for children and adolescents: qualitative research examining the impact of perspective and respondents' priorities around adult and child health

HEDS have started work on a new project which will work on providing important information about why people's values differ when valuing child and adolescent health states. This will involve exploring the impact of framing of perspective, elicitation technique, and wider views around child and adult health. This work will be informative for researchers and policy makers around how to elicit and interpret utility values for child and adolescent health states.

The project will undertake qualitative research to:
a) Better understand how framing around the perspective of health states impacts on values for child and adolescent health states elicited from members of the UK adult general population.
b) Understand how this is impacted by general attitudes to child and adult health and the prioritisation of child versus adult health. 

The project team are:
Donna Rowen, Phil Powell, Aki Tsuchiya and John Brazier

The research is funded by EuroQol Group and is taking place at the University of Sheffield, in collaboration with Oliver Rivero-Arias at the University of Oxford.