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Revista Salud Uninorte
Print version ISSN 0120-5552On-line version ISSN 2011-7531
Abstract
MONTOYA-RESTREPO, Luz Alexandra et al. Design and validation of the financial cost of the chronic illness care survey. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2017, vol.33, n.3, pp.355-362. ISSN 0120-5552.
Objective:
Design and validate the survey "Financial Cost of Chronic Ilness Care" to measure the actual money consumption and the family impact of caring for a person with chronic illness in Colombia.
Methodology:
This is a descriptive methodological study that was conducted in 2012 -2013 including four phases: 1) The literature review in order to select the references and build the preliminary proposal of the Survey. 2) Initial validation on the families of people with Chronic illness; 3) Validation with experts and 4) Implementation of a pilot survey.
Results:
The "Financial Cost of Chronic Illness Care" survey is composed of four dimensions including: Identification data; The actual money consumption attributable to the care of people with chronic illness; The perception of the financial burden associated with cost, and finally, observations related to the cost of care.
Conclusions:
The Financial Cost of Chronic Illness Care Survey was designed and validated as an original contribution for measuring actual money consumption as well as the family impact of caring for a person with chronic disease in Colombia.
Keywords : chronic disease; cost of illness; health economics (DeCS).