Economic evaluation of the Communicating Healthy Beginnings Advice by Telephone trial for early childhood obesity prevention.
Anagha KilledarLi-Ming WenEng Joo TanSarah K MarshallSarah TakiLimin BuchananChris RisselHuilan XuLouise Alison BaurAlison J HayesPublished in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (2022)
SMS delivery of Healthy Beginnings advice was more cost-effective than telephone delivery but less cost-effective than the original home-visiting approach ($4230 per unit BMI avoided, as calculated in an earlier study). Both the SMS and telephone interventions were more affordable than the home-visiting approach.