Do You Prefer Safety to Social Participation? Finnish Population-Based Preference Weights for the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) for Service Users.

ABSTRACT: Introduction. The Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) was developed in England to measure people's social care-related quality of life (SCRQoL). Objectives. The aim of this article is to estimate preference weights for the Finnish ASCOT for service users (ASCOT). In addition, we tested for learning and fatigue effects in the choice experiment used to elicit the preference weights. Methods. The analysis data (n = 1000 individuals) were obtained from an online survey sample of the Finnish adult general population using gender, age, and region as quotas. The questionnaire included a best-worst scaling (BWS) experiment using ASCOT. Each respondent sequentially selected four alternatives (best, worst; second-best, second-worst) for eight BWS tasks (n =

SUBMITTER: Nguyen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8274113 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature