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Table 4 Costs for Delivery of Beat the Blues to Treatment Group to Date (n = 122)

From: A community-integrated home based depression intervention for older African Americans: descripton of the Beat the Blues randomized trial and intervention costs

 

Description

How Measured

Mean Cost Per Participant (SD)

Screening

   

   A. Screening Cost

Screening by a trained senior center care manager staff

Time spent screening potential participants multiplied by screener's wage rate + fringe benefit costs divided by sample size

$2.63 (1.51)

Intervention Delivery*

   

   B. Intervention Delivery Cost Per Person (Cost Per Session X Number of Sessions)

Intervention conducted by a trained senior center staff member

Time conducting intervention multiplied by wage rate of interventionist + fringe benefit costs divided by sample size

$197.31 (133.00)

Participant Contact Outside of Intervention Delivery +

   

   C. Total Cost of Contacts Outside Intervention (Cost Per Contact X Number of Contacts)

All contact outside of the intervention by the interventionist (telephone support, preparation and documentation, mailing, faxing, and other)

Time spent in contact outside of intervention multiplied by wage rate + fringe benefit costs of interventionist divided by sample size

$84.00 (60.00)

Travel

   

   Mileage Reimbursement (Miles X $0.55)

Travel to and from homes of study participants by interventionist

Miles traveled multiplied by mileage reimbursement rate divided by sample size

$69.39 (46.88)

   Labor Cost of Travel

Travel to and from homes of study participants by interventionist

Wage rate + fringe benefit costs of interventionist multiplied by time spent in travel divided by sample size

$141.64 (127.16)

   D. Total Cost of Travel (Mileage Reimbursement + Labor Cost of Travel)

Total travel costs

Sum of mileage reimbursement and labor cost of travel

$211.03

Supervision Cost

   

   Supervision of Screeners~

Supervision of screeners by trained senior center staff member

Wage rate + fringe benefit costs of supervisor and screener multiplied by time spent supervising employee then divided by sample size

$4.19 (n/a)

   Supervision of Interventionists&

Supervision of interventionist by social work administrative staff of senior center

Wage rate + fringe benefit costs of supervisor and interventionist multiplied by time spent supervising employee then divided by sample size

$22.33 (n/a)

   E. Total Cost of Supervision (Supervision by IHSP + Supervision of Interventionist)

Total supervision cost including supervisor reviewing, meeting and managing screener, meeting and managing interventionist, and managing care mangers and service staff by senior center

Sum or supervision of screeners and supervision of interventionist

$26.52 (n/a)

Training #

   

   F. Training

Training of senior center screeners and of interventionist to conduct intervention

Wage rate + fringe benefit costs of screeners and trainers, multiplied by time spent in training divided by sample size

$0.9 (n/a)

Materials

   

   G. Materials

All materials used by screeners and interventionists

Cost of materials used for screening and during the intervention divided by sample size

$61.93 (n/a)

Adverse Events

   

   H. Adverse Events

Cost of adverse events

Supervisor wage rate + fringe benefit costs, multiplied by time spent dealing with adverse events divided by sample size

$0.32 (1.09)

Total Cost of BTB Per Person (A+B+C+D+E+F+G+H)

Total cost of delivering BTB (screening plus 4 month intervention) per participant

Sum of sub-cost categories

$584.64

 

Total cost of delivering BTB intervention per participant, per month

 

$146.16

  1. * Represents: time spent delivering the intervention over the phone, in the home, or on site at the senior center
  2. + Represents: calls, visits, mailings, fax, preparation, documentation, see table below for detailed breakdown of costs
  3. ~ In the table, cost is presented on a per participant basis, supervision costs were not linked at the participant level and thus standard deviations are not available. Cost of supervising screeners per supervisor (1) = $511.27 ($n/a). Cost of supervising screeners per screener (n = 17 screeners) = $34.97 (SD = 3.79).
  4. &In the table, cost is presented on a per participant basis, supervision costs was not linked at the participant level and thus standard deviations are not available. Cost of supervising interventionist per interventionist (5) = 544.78 ($278.89).
  5. #Cost to train 4 interventionists = $117