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Table 1 Six-month costs of health and social care use at baseline

From: The cost-utility of an intervention for children and adolescents with a parent having a mental illness in the framework of the German health and social care system: a health economic evaluation of a randomized controlled trial

Cost category

Total sample

Control group

Intervention group

m Difference €

p Diff

m €

m €

m €

Contr. versus Int.

Contr. versus Int.

(SD)

(sd)

(sd)

(se)a

OLSa

GLMb

Psychiatric and medical inpatient treatment

791.57 (3808.48)

1019.12 (4613.77)

562.63 (2768.50)

 − 456.50 (423.79)

0.283

0.268

Psychiatric and medical outpatient treatment

206.06 (579.93)

221.63 (600.72)

190.38 (559.65)

 − 31.25 (71.72)

0.664

0.665

Institutional child and adolescent welfare

224.45 (1862.13)

298.24 (2336.34)

150.21 (1214.35)

 − 148.03 (203.29)

0.467

0.431

Ambulant social or child and adolescent welfare

131.10 (529.56)

162.14 (669.46)

99.87 (333.82)

 − 62.28 (75.64)

0.411

0.348

Ambulant medication

19.89 (157.56)

15.60 (84.07)

24.22 (206.90)

8.62 (17.25)

0.618

0.571

School based interventions

518.18 (2306.12)

551.79 (2451.68)

484.37 (2156.82)

 − 67.41 (263.25)

0.798

0.796

Total cost

1891.25 (5183.13)

2268.52 (5761.37)

1511.68 (4513.76)

 − 756.84 (626.69)

0.229

0.233

  1. aOrdinary Least Square (OLS) regression with robust standard errors using family as cluster variable
  2. bGeneralized linear model (GLM) with gamma family and logistic link function and with family as cluster variable