EQ5D 5 level code

[Yuba Raj]

Hi
I am working on a quality of life data. There are five levels on each of the 5 items of mobility, self care, usual activity, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression.
Each variable are coded as : no problems (coded 1), slight problems (coded 2) moderate problem(coded 3) , severe problem (coded 4), unable to do (coded 5).

I tried the command that was used previously when EQ5D was categorized in 3 level : “no problem-1”, “some problems-2”, or “extreme problems-3”.

eq5d num_mobility num_selfcare num_usualactvty num_paindiscomf num_anxiety_depress , country(US)

but STATA 15.1 says that "Command eq5d is unrecognized"

I was wondering if there is a new code for EQ5D-5 levels

many thanks
Yuba Raj

[Yuba Raj]

This was the example dataset : I wanted to get mean EQ5D by grouping variable (interval)

* Example generated by -dataex-. To install: ssc install dataex
clear
input int strSubjectID byte(interval num_mobility num_selfcare num_usualactvty num_paindiscomf num_anxiety_depress)
137 1 1 1 1 2 1
139 1 2 1 2 2 2
170 1 1 1 1 1 1
156 1 2 1 1 2 3
123 1 2 1 1 2 2
115 1 1 1 1 2 1
117 1 1 1 1 2 1
149 1 1 1 2 2 3
121 1 1 1 1 2 1
102 1 1 1 1 1 1
147 1 2 1 1 2 2
120 1 1 1 1 1 2
125 1 2 1 1 2 2
150 1 1 1 1 2 3
130 1 1 1 1 2 1
end

[Clyde Schechter]

There is no official Stata command eq5d. When discussing a community-contributed command, you are asked to state where it comes from.

If you run -search eq5d-, you will get a list of links, one of which may be to the program you have in mind. Apparently it is not installed on the computer you are currently using. So follow the link and install it. I have no idea whether it works with 5 level or 3-level responses. If it does not work with 5-level data, you might wait a while to see if somebody on this Forum knows how to deal with that and responds. If there is non such response, you should probably contact directly the developers of the program to find out if they have written an update.

[William Lisowski]

To follow on Clyde's answer, I found

net install st0220_1

to install the latest version of the user-written eq5d command. It's further down in the list returned from the search command Clyde posted.

[Yuba Raj]

Thank you Clyde, William
it does not work.

net install st0220_1
file http://www.stata.com/st0220_1.pkg not found
could not load st0220_1.pkg from http://www.stata.com/

I am trying to develop a equation, myself let's see.
Thank you
Yuba Raj

[William Lisowski]

From my sample code you can infer that the package I am recommending is st0220_1, so just

search st0220_1

and click on the link.

[Hui SHI]

Hi
I am working on a quality of life data. There are five levels on each of the 5 items of mobility, self care, usual activity, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression.
Each variable are coded as : no problems (coded 1), slight problems (coded 2) moderate problem(coded 3) , severe problem (coded 4), unable to do (coded 5).

I tried the command that was used previously when EQ5D was categorized in 3 level : “no problem-1”, “some problems-2”, or “extreme problems-3”.

eq5d num_mobility num_selfcare num_usualactvty num_paindiscomf num_anxiety_depress , country(US)

but STATA 15.1 says that "Command eq5d is unrecognized"

I was wondering if there is a new code for EQ5D-5 levels

many thanks
Yuba Raj

Hi Yuba,

Have you solved this problem?

I also need to use eq5d command to calculate EQ-5D-3L utility score in Stata.

But I also can not install "st0220_1"

[Carlo Lazzaro]

Yuba:
what 's the country EQ_5D_5L tariffs refer to?
You may want to take a look at http://euroqol.org/wp%2Dcontent/uploads/2018/02/EQ%2D5D%2D5L_Crosswalk_Index_Value_Calculator_v2.x ls.
As far as ther Italian setting is comcerned, you may might be interested in http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34736804/
It is also worth mentioning that both EQ tools (questionnaire + VAS) should be included in your research report/article/whatever, as they measure different features of the health-related quality of life.
While the questionnaire scores are converted into coefficient which were measured via econometric procedures (basically regressions) on the answers/health states ranking results collected from a representative sample of the population (that usually include patients and healthy individuals), VAS is focused on patient's current health state. The reationale behind these two different approaches is that health care decision-making/priority-setting is made following the societal perspective (EQ questionnaire) but should also keep patients' preferences into account (VAS), as rationing choices affect patients, whereas priority-setting affects society as a whole.