Background The management of foot problems in JIA is complex and requires a multidisciplinary health professional input. However little is known about patients’ and parents’ preferences for attributes of foot care. Incorporating individuals’ preferences into future foot-care provision may improve satisfaction, treatment adherence, and thus clinical efficacy. The aim of this study was to compare...

BACKGROUND There has been recent interest in using the discrete choice experiment (DCE) method to derive health state utilities for use in quality-adjusted life year (QALY) calculations, but challenges remain. OBJECTIVES We set out to develop a risk-based DCE approach to derive utility values for health states that allowed 1) utility values to be anchored directly to normal health and death a...

There is growing interest in discrete-choice experiments (DCE) as a method to elicit consumers' preferences in the health care sector. Increasingly this method is used to determine willingness-to-pay (WTP) for health-related goods. However, its external validity in the health care domain has not been investigated until today. This paper examines the external validity of DCE concerning the reduc...

Despite substantial policy efforts made by the French government to reduce dependence on pesticides, farming practices are only changing slowly. This paper analyses socio-economic trade-offs that 110 farmers currently facing in transition agro-ecological practices. A mixed-method approach - a quantitative discrete choice experiment (DCE) and qualitative interviews was set up understand these fa...

BACKGROUND To be able to make valid inferences on stated preference data from a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) it is essential that researchers know if participants were actively involved, understood and interpreted the provided information correctly and whether they used complex decision strategies to make their choices and thereby acted in accordance with the continuity axiom. METHODS Dur...

OBJECTIVE To examine parents' preferences and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for HPV vaccines. METHODS A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was used. Parents with at least one daughter aged 9-13 years residing in Songkhla province were asked to choose one alternative from each DCE choice set describing HPV vaccines by four attributes, including cervical cancer risk reduction, genital warts risk reduc...

Background This study sought to establish the preferences of people with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) about the best outcome measure for a health and fitness intervention randomised controlled trial (RCT). The results of this study were used to inform the choice of the trial primary and secondary outcome measure. Methods A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was used to assess people's preferences ...

To appropriately weight dimensions of quality life instruments for health economic evaluations, population and patient preferences need to be elicited. Two commonly used elicitation methods this purpose are discrete choice experiments (DCE) case 2 best-worst scaling (BWS). These differ in terms their cognitive burden, which is especially relevant when eliciting among older people. Using a rando...

Rivers are under enormous threat worldwide and large amounts of money invested in river restoration. Contrary to the costs, benefits restoration much harder quantify. In this study, restoring different sections Yongding River Beijing, China, estimated through a discrete choice experiment (DCE). Place attachment is measured by sampling residents upstream downstream using as labelled alternatives...