A Prospective Programmatic Cost Analysis of Fuel Your Life: A Worksite Translation of DPP.
An accounting of the resources necessary for implementation of efficacious programs is important for economic evaluations and dissemination.



A programmatic costs analysis was conducted prospectively in conjunction with an efficacy trial of Fuel Your Life (FYL), a worksite translation of the Diabetes Prevention Program. FYL was implemented through three different modalities, Group, Phone, and Self-study, using a micro-costing approach from both the employer and societal perspectives.



The Phone modality was the most costly at $354.6 per participant, compared with $154.6 and $75.5 for the Group and Self-study modalities, respectively. With the inclusion of participant-related costs, the Phone modality was still more expensive than the Group modality but with a smaller incremental difference ($461.4 vs $368.1).



This level of cost-related detail for a preventive intervention is rare, and our analysis can aid in the transparency of future economic evaluations.
Economic Evaluation Research Group, College of Public Health (Drs Ingels, Walcott, Corso); Workplace Health Group, College of Public Health (Mr Wilson, Ms Padilla, Drs Zuercher, DeJoy); and Department of Management, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia (Dr Vandenberg).
Justin B
JB
Ingels
Rebecca L
RL
Walcott
Mark G
MG
Wilson
Phaedra S
PS
Corso
Heather M
HM
Padilla
Heather
H
Zuercher
David M
DM
DeJoy
Robert J
RJ
Vandenberg
D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D011446:Prospective Studies; D017132:Workplace