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. 2023 Oct 24;2023(10):CD014722. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD014722.pub2

2. Economic analysis.

Author year Country Type of economic analysis Study population Interventions Intervention‐specific costs and cost‐effectiveness Resources (i.e. costs to health services other than intervention costs; patient/society costs and productivity)
Jordans 2010; Tol 2012 Sri Lanka Cost analysis Children
(both male and female, 9 to 12 years of age) Classroom‐based intervention (CBI) vs waiting list Costs: cost analyses for intervention group demonstrated mean cost per service user was USD 8.85 (56% of which is human resources cost) Health service costs: ‘costs’ included broader package
Cost data: calculated Delivered by LHWs (paraprofessional
interventionists); training: 2
weeks in Sri Lanka Cost‐effectiveness: cost analyses
represented basic calculations.
Presented data did not allow for more sophisticated analyses Patient cost: none reported
Chang 2015 Jamaica Cost analysis  Adults (female, age not specified) Parenting intervention with routine primary health care vs usual care Costs: the cost per child was USD 100.9 for 1 year of intervention Health service cost: USD 100.9 per child including equipment purchases, materials, training, and wages
Delivered by community health workers and nurses; training: 3‐day workshops with viewing of films and role plays Cost‐effectiveness: not reported Patient cost: none reported
Osborn 2020 Kenya Cost analysis Adolescents (both male and females, 13 to 18 years of age) Shamiri‐Digital Wellness vs active control Cost: USD 3.57 per student to deliver Shamiri‐Digital Health service cost: health service costs included equipment (computers, desks, chairs) with an hourly cost of USD 0.97, totalling USD 104.65 for the 9 months of the intervention
Self‐help digital‐based intervention Cost‐effectiveness: depending on the definition of clinically meaningful improvement, 7.1 to 9.7 students needed to receive the intervention for 1 student to experience a clinically meaningful improvement, which translated to a cost of USD 25.35 to USD 34.62 per student Patient cost: none reported

CBI: classroom‐based intervention
LHW: lay health workers
USD: US dollar
vs: versus