Do you have a good idea of what the situation looks like currently, what the case worker will buy, and what the situation looks like after it’s been bought?
If you can extrapolate how the situation would look if you didn’t make the intervention, and you know what the intervention did, you could try to compute the QALY difference between those two estimates to get an impression of its effectiveness. Remember to beware of regression to the mean, though.
Without this sort of detailed knowledge, I don’t think it’s possible to estimate the effect.
Those are all great questions. I’m going to start by asking the case worker those questions. I imagine they will buy items like diabetes medication, baby formula, and diapers. There my intervention frees up cash for the family to buy other items. Maybe I’ll direct the case worker to ask what they bought with the extra cash they have? I imagine the quality of life increase will come in the items they chose to buy with cash they didn’t have to spend on the necessities I bought.
Do you have a good idea of what the situation looks like currently, what the case worker will buy, and what the situation looks like after it’s been bought?
If you can extrapolate how the situation would look if you didn’t make the intervention, and you know what the intervention did, you could try to compute the QALY difference between those two estimates to get an impression of its effectiveness. Remember to beware of regression to the mean, though.
Without this sort of detailed knowledge, I don’t think it’s possible to estimate the effect.
Those are all great questions. I’m going to start by asking the case worker those questions. I imagine they will buy items like diabetes medication, baby formula, and diapers. There my intervention frees up cash for the family to buy other items. Maybe I’ll direct the case worker to ask what they bought with the extra cash they have? I imagine the quality of life increase will come in the items they chose to buy with cash they didn’t have to spend on the necessities I bought.