The Cost-effectiveness of Collegiate Recovery Programs
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-26-2022
Publication Title
Journal of American College Health
DOI
10.1080/07448481.2021.2024206
Abstract
Objective
To conduct a preliminary cost-effectiveness analysis of collegiate recovery programs in the United States and to create a tailorable cost-effectiveness calculator based on the preliminary cost-effectiveness model.
Methods
Cost-effectiveness was assessed with a base case, one-way sensitivity analyses, and probabilistic sensitivity analyses for the societal and health systems (institutions of higher education) perspectives, comparing CRPs to treatment as usual. Models were estimated using secondary data sources. A cost-effectiveness calculator was constructed using the models developed for the cost-effectiveness analysis.
Results
CRPs were found to be cost-effective across all models. Institutional and societal models were robust to changes in parameters.
Conclusions
CRPs are a cost-effective intervention and are cost-saving under certain conditions. A free online calculator developed form this analysis is available to estimate program-specific cost-effectiveness.
Recommended Citation
Castedo de Martell, Sierra, Lori Holleran Steiker, Andrew Springer, Jeffery A. Jones, Emily Eisenhart, Henry S. Brown III.
2022.
"The Cost-effectiveness of Collegiate Recovery Programs."
Journal of American College Health: Taylor and Francis Online.
doi: 10.1080/07448481.2021.2024206
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/hpmb-facpubs/333
Comments
Georgia Southern University faculty members, Jeffrey Jones and Emily Eisenthart co-authored The Cost-effectiveness of Collegiate Recovery Programs.