Eliciting risk preferences that predict risky health behavior: A comparison of two approaches.

ABSTRACT: Information on attitudes to risk could increase understanding of and explain risky health behaviors. We investigate two approaches to eliciting risk preferences in the health domain, a novel "indirect" lottery elicitation approach with health states as outcomes and a "direct" approach where respondents are asked directly about their willingness to take risks. We compare the ability of the two approaches to predict health-related risky behaviors in a general adult population. We also investigate a potential framing effect in the indirect lottery elicitation approach. We find that risk preferences elicited using the direct approach can better predict health-related risky behavior than those elicited using the indirect approach. Moreover, a seemingly innocuous change to the framing of the lot

SUBMITTER: Yang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9305924 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature