Mapping of the World Health Organization's Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 to disability weights using the Multi‐Country Survey Study on Health and Responsiveness

• Published in: International journal of methods in psychiatric research Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. e1886 - n/a
• Main Authors: Lokkerbol, Joran, Wijnen, Ben F. M., Chatterji, Somnath, Kessler, Ronald C., Chisholm, Dan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.09.2021; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Activities of daily living; Algorithms; Cost analysis; Decision making; Disability Evaluation; disability weight; Humans; Intervention; Learning algorithms; Machine learning; Mapping; mapping function; multi‐country survey study on health and responsiveness; Normal distribution; Original; Outcome Assessment, Health Care; Persons with Disabilities; Public health; Regression analysis; Sensitivity analysis; Surveys and Questionnaires; Valuation; WHODAS‐2.0; World Health Organization; Slovakia; India; Indonesia; WHODAS-2.0; multi-country survey study on health and responsiveness; disability weight; mapping function

Objectives To develop and test an internationally applicable mapping function for converting WHODAS‐2.0 scores to disability weights, thereby enabling WHODAS‐2.0 to be used in cost‐utility analyses and sectoral decision‐making. Methods Data from 14 countries were used from the WHO Multi‐Country Surv...