The COVID-19 vaccination decision-making preferences of elderly people: a discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 is a continuing threat to global public health security. For elderly people, timely and effective vaccination reduces infection rates in this group and safeguards their health. This paper adopted an offline Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) to research the preference for COVID-19 vaccination amongst Chinese adults aged 50 years and above. Through multinomial logistic regression analysis, our DCE leverages five attributes-the risk of adverse reactions, protective duration, injection doses, injection period, and effectiveness-each of which is split into three to four levels. The risk of adverse reaction and the protective duration were demonstrated to be determinants of vaccination preference. Moreover, it was found that socio demographic factors like region, self-health assessment a

SUBMITTER: Chen Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10063931 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature