Identifying women's preferences for treatment of urinary tract infection: a discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify the preferences of women regarding management of urinary tract infections (UTIs).

Design

A discrete choice experiment of the preferences for certain treatment attributes was conducted by survey. Attributes included treatment duration, time to complaint resolution, complication risk, side effect risk and contribution to antimicrobial resistance.

Setting

General population in the Netherlands, recruited via social media.

Participants

Women aged 18 years or older.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The primary outcome was the relative importance of the attributes for treatment choice, using a conditional logit model. The secondary outcome was the heterogeneity in these preferences.

Results

The discrete choice experiment was c

SUBMITTER: van der Worp H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8596048 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature