OBJECTIVE This paper describes the development of a discrete choice experiment (DCE) questionnaire to identify the factors (attributes) that allied health professionals (AHPs) working with people with disability identify as important to encouraging them to remain practising in rural areas. METHODS Focus groups and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 97 purposively selected service ...

BACKGROUND How women experience childbirth is acknowledged as critical to the postnatal wellbeing of mother and baby. However there is a knowledge deficit in identifying the important elements of these experiences in order to enhance care. This study elicits women's preferences for the most important elements of their childbirth experiences. METHODS A mixed methods design was used. An initial...

OBJECTIVE To elicit prescribers' preferences for behavioural economics interventions designed to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing, and compare these to actual behaviour. DESIGN Discrete choice experiment (DCE). SETTING 47 primary care centres in Boston and Los Angeles. PARTICIPANTS 234 primary care providers, with an average 20 years of practice. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Re...

BACKGROUND One of the key strategies to successful implementation of effective health-related interventions is targeting improvements in stakeholder engagement. The discrete choice experiment (DCE) is a stated preference technique for eliciting individual preferences over hypothetical alternative scenarios that is increasingly being used in health-related applications. DCEs are a dynamic approa...

BACKGROUND Interactive video games such as the Nintendo Wii Fit are increasingly used as a therapeutic tool in health and aged care settings however, their acceptability to older people is unclear. The aim of this study was to determine the acceptability of the Nintendo Wii Fit as a therapy tool for hospitalised older people using a discrete choice experiment (DCE) before and after exposure to ...

OBJECTIVES Multiple personal and work-related factors influence medical trainees' career decision-making. The relative value of these diverse factors is under-researched, yet this intelligence is crucially important for informing medical workforce planning and retention and recruitment policies. Our aim was to investigate the relative value of UK doctors' preferences for different training post...

India’s contribution to global CO2 emissions makes it a priority case for policy makers worldwide. The Indian government is considering the adoption of energy labels new passenger cars tackle emissions. This paper’s first aim asses New Delhi’s car buyers’ preferences displaying labels. To do so, discrete choice experiment (DCE) has been designed document both WTP efficiency (212 USD one kilomet...