Mapping the WHO Disability Assessment Scale 2,0 to the EQ 5D 5L in patients with mental disorders

Mapping the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Scale 2.0 to the EQ-5D-5L in patients with mental disorders

Edimansyah Abdin, Vanessa Seet, Anitha Jeyagurunathan, Sing Chik Tan, Muhammad Iskandar Shah Mohmad Khalid, Yee Ming Mok, Swapna Verma, Mythily Subramaniam

Objective

The current study aims to develop an algorithm for mapping the WHODAS 2.0 to the EQ-5D-5 L for patients with mental disorders.

Methods

This cross-sectional study was conducted at the Institute of Mental Health and Community Wellness Clinics in Singapore between June 2019 and November 2022. We included four regression methods including the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression, the Tobit regression model (Tobit), the robust regression with MM estimator (MM), and the adjusted limited dependent variable mixture model (ALDVMM) to map EQ-5D-5 L utility scores from the WHODAS 2.0.

Results

A total of 797 participants were included. The mean EQ-5D-5 L utility and WHODAS 2.0 total scores were 0.615 (SD = 0.342) and 11.957 (SD = 8.969), respectively. We found that the EQ-5D-5 L utility score was best predicted by the robust regression model with the MM estimator. Our findings suggest that the WHODAS 2.0 total scores were significantly and inversely associated with the EQ-5D-5 L utility scores.

Conclusion

This study provides a mapping algorithm for converting the WHODAS 2.0 scores into EQ-5D-5 L utility scores which can be implemented using a simple online calculator in the following web application: https://eastats.shinyapps.io/whodas_eq5d/ ↗ (opens in new tab).

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14737167.2024.2376100 ↗ (opens in new tab)