Trade-Offs between Vaccine Effectiveness and Vaccine Safety: Personal versus Policy Decisions.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We aimed to investigate whether individuals' trade-offs between vaccine effectiveness and vaccine safety vary if they are asked to consider the perspective of a policymaker making decisions for others compared with the decisions they would make for themselves.

Method

A web-enabled discrete choice experiment survey was administered between 1 April and 1 May 2022 to participants recruited from the general population of two Southeast Asian countries (Indonesia and Vietnam). In each country, 500 participants were randomly assigned to make decisions regarding coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines for others as a policymaker or in a personal capacity for their own use. Vaccines were characterized by three attributes: (1) effectiveness of the vaccine in reducing in

SUBMITTER: Ozdemir S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10721762 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature