Table 3.
Item of resource use | Unit | Unit costs | Source of data |
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Intervention | |||
Booklet development | Hour research time | AUD/hour | Grant budget |
Pilot testing | |||
Booklet design | Hour Graphic design | AUD/hour | Designer invoice |
Booklet printing | Booklet | AUD/booklet | Printing invoice |
Questionnaire printing | Questionnaire | AUD/survey | Printing invoice |
Postage | Reply paid envelope | AUD/envelope | Trial records |
Intervention manual development | Therapist hour | AUD/hour | University HR |
Psychologist recruitment | Advertisement | AUD/advert | APS invoice |
Psychologist training | Hour of training | AUD/hour | University HR |
Weekly clinical supervision | Hour of supervision | AUD/hour | Trial records |
Trial-related costs | |||
Trial coordination | Hour PhD student | AUD/hour | University HR |
Hour RA | AUD/hour | University HR | |
Psychologist salary | Hour psychologist | AUD/hour | University HR |
Booklets printing | Booklet | AUD/booklet | University HR |
Questionnaires printing | Questionnaire | AUD/survey | Printing invoice |
Telephone counselling | Minutes telephone call | AUD/min | Provider rates |
Recording materials | Recorder | AUD/recorder | Trial records |
Stamps | Set | AUD/set | Trial records |
Envelopes | Box | AUD/box | Trial records |
Health services use | |||
Doctors’ visits | Mean number of hours of visit | 85% scheduled fee in AUD | Medicare Australia |
Diagnostic testing | |||
Psychologist visit | |||
Psychiatrist visit | |||
Social worker | |||
Counselling service | |||
Complementary therapies | |||
Other allied health | |||
Medication use | |||
Prescribed medications | Dose | PBS fee | Medicare Australia |
APS, Australian Psychological Society; AUD, Australian dollar; HR, Human resources; PBS, Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme; RA, research assistant.