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Area of Science:

  • Health Economics
  • Social Policy
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • Informal carer impacts are crucial for cost-of-illness and cost-effectiveness analyses.
  • The method for identifying informal carers can influence study outcomes.
  • Limited understanding exists on how different identification methods affect estimated impacts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare a novel time diary technique with a common self-declaration question for identifying informal carers.
  • To determine if the time diary method detects more and different carers.
  • To assess if carers identified by different methods experience varying mental health outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the UK Household Longitudinal Study's Innovation Panel data.
  • Employed regression analysis to compare carer identification by time diary versus self-declaration.
  • Applied entropy balancing with regression adjustment to estimate mental health impacts.

Main Results:

  • The time diary method identified 16% more carers than self-declaration.
  • Carers identified via time diary showed significantly higher General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) scores (1.24 increase, p < 0.05).
  • Self-declared carers exhibited a smaller, non-significant increase in GHQ scores (0.36, p > 0.1).

Conclusions:

  • Self-declaration may underestimate the mental health impacts of informal caregiving.
  • Integrating time diaries can enhance the identification of informal carers.
  • Future research should carefully consider carer identification methods and their implications.