Preferences for COVID-19 epidemic control measures among French adults: a discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT: In this stated preferences study, we describe for the first time French citizens' preferences for various epidemic control measures, to inform longer-term strategies and future epidemics. We used a discrete choice experiment in a representative sample of 908 adults in November 2020 (before vaccination was available) to quantify the trade-off they were willing to make between restrictions on the social, cultural, and economic life, school closing, targeted lockdown of high-incidence areas, constraints to directly protect vulnerable persons (e.g., self-isolation), and measures to overcome the risk of hospital overload. The estimation of mixed logit models with correlated random effects shows that some trade-offs exist to avoid overload of hospitals and intensive care units, at the expense of

SUBMITTER: Sicsic J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8934018 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature