Women's Preferences for Treatment of Perinatal Depression and Anxiety: A Discrete Choice Experiment.

ABSTRACT: Perinatal depression and anxiety (PNDA) are an international healthcare priority, associated with significant short- and long-term problems for women, their children and families. Effective treatment is available but uptake is suboptimal: some women go untreated whilst others choose treatments without strong evidence of efficacy. Better understanding of women's preferences for treatment is needed to facilitate uptake of effective treatment. To address this issue, a discrete choice experiment (DCE) was administered to 217 pregnant or postnatal women in Australia, who were recruited through an online research company and had similar sociodemographic characteristics to Australian data for perinatal women. The DCE investigated preferences regarding cost, treatment type, availability of childca

SUBMITTER: Ride J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4892671 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature