The EQ-HWB: Overview of the Development of a Measure of Health and Wellbeing and Key Results

Analyzing the Pain/Discomfort and Anxiety/Depression Composite Domains and the Meaning of Discomfort in the EQ-5D: A Mixed-Methods Study

“…Harmonization of discomfort in other languages has also been conducted; for instance, the Dutch EQ-5D-3L used the word "klachten" (complaint) that was revised as "ongemak" (discomfort) in the EQ-5D-5L. These findings provide supportive evidence for the recently developed EQ Health and Wellbeing 39 instrument that asks about physical pain and physical discomfort in 2 separate questions, with the latter being supplemented by the examples of "feeling sick, breathless, itching (not including pain). "…”

A Comparison of a Preliminary Version of the EQ-HWB Short and the 5-Level Version EQ-5D

“…12 The Extending the QALY (E-QALY) project is an international collaboration that started in 2017 led by researchers in the United Kingdom and joined by research teams in Australia, Argentina, China, Germany, and the United States, with the mission of developing a broad generic measure of health and wellbeing for use in economic evaluations of interventions across healthcare, social care, and public health that overcomes the gaps previously identified for other MAUIs. 14 This project applied state-of-the-art/science methods 14 and a structured framework 15 to ensure the development of a measure capable of adequately assessing the impact of conditions and interventions on users of health and social care services, including informal caregivers and others potentially affected. The first 4 stages of the E-QALY project culminated in the development of a 25-item profile measure, the EQ-HWB, and a 9-items classifier, the EQ-HWB-S, which could be valued and disseminated on stages 5 and 6.…”

China Health Related Outcomes Measures (CHROME): Development of a New Generic Preference-Based Measure for the Chinese Population

“…In addition, most of these existing PBMs were developed decades ago. Perceptions on important aspects of HRQoL may change over time [ 9 , 35 , 36 ], which motivated, in part, the recent development of new instruments, both generic and disease specific, in Western countries [ 17 , 20 , 37 , 38 ]. Compared with existing generic PBMs, a unique item in the CHROME-G is appetite.…”

“…Empirical studies had found inconsistent conceptualization of health domains, insufficient internal consistency, and unsatisfactory item-to-scale correlation when these instruments were used among the Chinese respondents [ 10 , 14 , 15 ]. In the development of new EuroQoL Health and Wellbeing instrument (EQ-HWB) that aims to assess the impact on the health and well-being of care recipients and caregivers [ 16 ], the conceptual model was reasonably well confirmed in the UK, Australia, and the USA, but not in China [ 17 , 18 ]. Moreover, most of the existing generic PBMs were developed decades ago.…”