Testing the feasibility of eliciting preferences for health states from adolescents using direct methods.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Measuring adolescents' preferences for health states can play an important role in evaluating the delivery of pediatric healthcare. However, formal evaluation of the common direct preference elicitation methods for health states has not been done with adolescents. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to test how these methods perform in terms of their feasibility, reliability, and validity for measuring health state preferences in adolescents.

Methods

This study used a web-based survey of adolescents, 18 years of age or younger, living in the United States. The survey included four health states, each comprised of six attributes. Preferences for these health states were elicited using the visual analogue scale, time trade-off, and standard gamble. The feasibili

SUBMITTER: Crump RT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6015455 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature