Preferences of Patients with Non-Communicable Diseases for Primary Healthcare Facilities: A Discrete Choice Experiment in Wuhan, China.

ABSTRACT: To elicit stated preferences of patients with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) for primary healthcare (PHC) facilities and to explore the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for facility attributes. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted through face to face interviews. The DCE survey was constructed by five attributes: type of service, treatment measures, cost, travel time, and care provider. Patients' preferences and willingness to pay for facility attributes were analyzed using a mixed logit model, and interaction terms were used to assess preference heterogeneity among patients with different sociodemographic characteristics. Patients placed different weights on attributes, depending on whether they perceived their health condition as minor or severe. For conditions perceived as minor,

SUBMITTER: Jia E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7311994 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature