Table 4.
Mean cumulative costs (in US $) by group and incremental costs (N=103).
| Cost item | MyCourse (n=53), mean (SD) | Control (n=50), mean (SD) | Incremental costsa (n=53), mean (SD) | |
| Health care costs | 7840 (11,767) | 8233 (15,077) | −393 (19,125) | |
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Specialized somatic | 3819 (5772) | 3627 (6463) | 192 (8665) |
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Specialized psychiatric | 1209 (3878) | 688 (1906) | 521 (4321) |
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Patient and family costs | 953 (5517) | 178 (1811) | 775 (5807) |
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Other | 907 (1142) | 1126 (1434) | −219 (1833) |
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Medication | 953 (5479) | 2613 (10,521) | −1660 (11,862) |
| Productivity loss | 9972 (1934) | 15,189 (26,307) | −5217 (26,378) | |
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Presenteeism | 153 (319) | 210 (408) | −57 (518) |
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Absenteeism | 9532 (19,389) | 14,799 (26,364) | −5267 (32,726) |
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Unpaid work | 452 (1049) | 474 (1007) | −22 (1454) |
| Intervention costs | 279 (0) | 74 (0) | 205 (0) | |
| Total societal costs | 18,092 (25,662) | 23,496 (34,327) | −5404 (42,859) | |
aCosts in the MyCourse group minus costs in the control group.