Public Preferences for a COVID-19 Vaccination Program in Quebec: A Discrete Choice Experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We aimed to elicit preferences of the French-speaking Quebec population regarding a COVID-19 vaccination program and to characterize individuals with respect to their vaccination behaviors.

Methods

A discrete choice experiment was conducted in Autumn 2020 via a web-based survey. Its design included seven attributes: vaccine origin, vaccine effectiveness, side effects, protection duration, priority population, waiting time to get vaccinated, and recommender of the vaccine. Utilities were estimated using a mixed-logit model and a latent class logit model.

Results

Our sample included 1599 individuals. From this total, 119 always chose the opt-out option (7.4%). According to the mixed-logit model, the relative weights of attributes were as follows: effectivenes

SUBMITTER: Morillon GF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8769946 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature