Cost-effectiveness for health-related QOL improvement -Should we invest in personnel or facilities?-

Research Project

Project/Area Number	15K12716
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Applied health science
Research Institution	Shikoku Gakuin University
Principal Investigator	Katayama Akihiko 四国学院大学, 社会学部, 教授(移行) (00435075)
Research Collaborator	MIYATAKE Nobuyuki TAKASHIMA Nobuko UCHIDA Hiroko
Project Period (FY)	2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000) Fiscal Year 2017: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords	健康関連QOL / 費用対効果 / ランダム化比較試験
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This report examines the cost-effectiveness of health-related classes that have different investments using a randomized controlled trial. By comparing a lesson focused personnel investment type class, and a machine training focused capital investment type class, we analyzed the participants’ mental health, self-efficacy, physical health, and etc. Participants in lesson focused classes showed improvement of mental health. The study is an important resource for deciding management approaches and encourages effective investment of limited management resources to produce the intended outcome.