An economic evaluation alongside a randomized controlled trial evaluating an individually tailored lifestyle intervention compared with usual care in people with Familial Hypercholesterolemia

Karen Broekhuizen; Marieke F van Wier; Lando L J Koppes; Johannes Brug; Willem van Mechelen; Judith E Bosmans; Mireille N M van Poppel

doi:10.1186/s13104-015-1282-x

Table 3 Overview of costs of the PRO-FIT intervention in Euros per participant

From: An economic evaluation alongside a randomized controlled trial evaluating an individually tailored lifestyle intervention compared with usual care in people with Familial Hypercholesterolemia

Cost category	Included resources	Cost prices per unit^a	Costs per participant
Development
Developmental costs of brochure and coaching logs	Content development (30 h) by junior researcher Concept development/graphic design (24 h) by graphic designer Final development (12 h) by brochure designer	€ 35.75/h € 75/h € 65/h	Є 2.80
Computer-based part of intervention, including website and application for providing computer-tailored advice	Web development (12 h) by web-developer Registration website (once) Development/adjustment tailoring application by junior researcher (216 h) Account tailoring application	€ 65/h € 53.95^§ € 35.75/h € 3,930.25^§	Є 5.44
Brochures, logs, website and tailoring application	Printing of brochure/coaching logs Hosting website Hosting tailoring application	€ 0.10/piece € 119.40/year^§ € 171/year^§	Є 1.64
Implementation based on 2,700 participants and an implementation period of 5 years
Training of lifestyle coaches	A 3-day Motivational Interviewing workshop 5 lifestyle coaches, 3 days, 8 h/day Supervisor, 3 days, 8 h/day	€ 5,100^§ € 38.38/h € 35.75/h	Є 3.94
Supervision of lifestyle coaches (10 meetings of 2 h each)	Meeting rooms rental costs 5 lifestyle coaches Supervisor	€ 11.50/room/h^§ € 38.38/h € 35.75/h	Є 1.77
Counselling	1 face-to-face counselling session (45 min) by lifestyle coach 5 telephone booster sessions (15 min/session) by lifestyle coach Administrative work (25 min/participant) by lifestyle coach Travelling (82 km/participant and 1 h/participant)	€ 38.38/h € 38.38/h € 38.38/h € 0.20/km € 38.38/h	Є 147.64
Total intervention costs			Є 163.13

hrs hours, mins minutes.
^aSalary costs were derived from the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Academic Medical Centers (CAO UMC) 2010 (for junior researcher, lifestyle coach and supervisor), or by price offers from web developers, graphic/brochure designers.
^§Costing was based on invoices/price offers.

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