The continuously dramatic rise of the number of people suffering from depression is attracting an increasing demand for effective ways of preventing depression. Besides the need for new interventions, there is also a continuous call for a more robust framework for economic evaluation of public interventions. Taking into account people’s preferences for public goods is not straightforward to quantify, and therefore, in addition to designing a new technique for valuing nonmarket goods and services, it is equally important to use valuation methods that are not yet established as traditional. One less commonly used method to assess the cost of depression in monetary terms is the well-being valuation method or the life satisfaction approach, which requires answers to only a few questions that are significantly less time demanding for the respondents than more traditional approaches. We added a well-being question to a contingent valuation web-survey that describes hypothetical interventions aimed to prevent depression in Sweden and estimated that the loss in life satisfaction for individuals who experienced depression varies between approximately 350 and 45,000 euros per year. The monetary compensation would be, on average, higher for individuals who experienced own depression than for those who know someone near, family or friend, who experienced depression, for men than for women, and for middle-aged than for younger and older individuals, respectively.

患有抑郁症的人数不断急剧增加，这吸引了对预防抑郁症的有效方法的日益增长的需求。除了需要新的干预措施外，还不断呼吁建立一个更强大的公共干预措施经济评估框架。考虑到人们对公共物品的偏好并不容易量化，因此，除了设计一种评估非市场商品和服务的新技术外，使用尚未确立为传统​​的估值方法同样重要。一种不太常用的以货币形式评估抑郁症成本的方法是幸福评估法或生活满意度法，与更传统的方法相比，它只需要回答几个问题，这些问题对受访者的时间要求要少得多。我们在或有评估网络调查中添加了一个幸福问题，该调查描述了旨在预防瑞典抑郁症的假设干预措施，并估计患有抑郁症的个人每年损失的生活满意度约为 350 至 45,000 欧元。平均而言，经历过自己抑郁症的人的金钱补偿比那些认识附近的人、家人或朋友、经历过抑郁症的人、男性高于女性、中年人高于年轻人和老年人的金钱补偿，分别。我们在或有评估网络调查中添加了一个幸福问题，该调查描述了旨在预防瑞典抑郁症的假设干预措施，并估计患有抑郁症的个人每年损失的生活满意度约为 350 至 45,000 欧元。平均而言，经历过自己抑郁症的人的金钱补偿比那些认识附近的人、家人或朋友、经历过抑郁症的人、男性高于女性、中年人高于年轻人和老年人的金钱补偿，分别。我们在或有评估网络调查中添加了一个幸福问题，该调查描述了旨在预防瑞典抑郁症的假设干预措施，并估计患有抑郁症的个人每年损失的生活满意度约为 350 至 45,000 欧元。平均而言，经历过自己抑郁症的人的金钱补偿比那些认识附近的人、家人或朋友、经历过抑郁症的人、男性高于女性、中年人高于年轻人和老年人的金钱补偿，分别。