Economic evaluation of a task-shifting intervention for common mental disorders in India
Christine Buttorff, Rebecca S Hock, Helen A Weiss, Smita Naik, Ricardo Araya, Betty R Kirkwood, Daniel Chisholm & Vikram Patel
Volume 90, Number 11, November 2012, 813-821
Table 1. Average annual costs, per subject, in the intervention and control arms in public facilities, Goa, India, 2009
| Type of expenditure | Mean cost in US$a (SD) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Control (n = 825) | Intervention (n = 823) | |
| Health system | ||
| Outpatient | 42 (61) | 38 (78) |
| Inpatient | 24 (102) | 27 (195) |
| Investigations | 5 (14) | 5 (13) |
| Medication | 17 (29) | 17 (34) |
| Additional human resource costs | 0 | 2 (2) |
| Subtotal | 88 (140) | 89 (246) |
| Time | ||
| Time costs of visiting outpatient facilities | 17 (20) | 10 (12) |
| Lost wages | 108 (20) | 64 (133) |
| Costs of time lost by family caregivers | 12 (24) | 11 (32) |
| Retreat costs | 3 (13) | 3 (16) |
| Subtotal | 141 (198) | 88 (153) |
| Total | 229 (274) | 177 (342) |
SD, standard deviation; US$, United States dollars.
a Exchange rate: 46.5 Indian rupees = US$ 1. Note: The standard deviations in this table are unusually large because of the skew often found in cost data.