HEQ (Health Economics Questionnaire) COVID-19

The Health Economics Questionnaire (HEQ) is a comprehensive patient self-completed health economics questionnaire measuring health and social care resource use, medication, absenteeism from work and presenteeism as well as socio-demographic background information. It has been developed as part of the multi-country European PreDicT study for depression and has been applied in further mental health clinical trials including the UK-based PAX-BD and PAX-D studies.

To allow for resource-use measurement in times of pandemics, it has been updated and complemented with a COVID-19 resource-use measurement module (module 7). The HEQ COVID-19 now both reflects the changed service provision landscape and having direct information on any COVID-19 related service use. In module 7, a set of new questions have been added to capture further information about COVID-19 infections, self-isolation and related changes in health services use and employment status, with the purpose of understanding what resource use can be directly attributed to the on-going COVID-19 public health crisis rather than the investigated trial treatment or mental illness.

Currently it is available in two languages: English, German.

The baseline and follow-up versions of the English language HEQ COVID-19 questionnaire can be downloaded here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4269553

Download and use of the HEQ is conditional upon citation of the HEQ in any resulting work/publication as follows:

Simon, J & Mayer, S (2020): HEQ COVID-19 - Health Economics Questionnaire including COVID-19 resource use module, Version v5.1 (06-11-2020), Department of Health Economics, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4269553

For the access and use of the German language versions, please contact dhe@meduniwien.ac.at