Comparing Preferences for Disease Profiles: A Discrete Choice Experiment from a US Societal Perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

There is increasing interest in expanding the elements of value to be considered when making health policy decisions. To help inform value frameworks, this study quantified preferences for disease attributes in a general public sample and examined which combination of attributes (disease profiles) are considered most important for research and treatment.

Methods

A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted in a US general population sample, recruited through online consumer panels. Respondents were asked to select one of a set of health conditions they believed to be most important, characterized by attributes defined by a previous qualitative study: onset age; cause of disease; life expectancy; caregiver requirement; symptom burden (characterized by the Healt

SUBMITTER: Johnston KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11021240 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature