Calculating Preference Weights for the Labor and Delivery Index: A Discrete Choice Experiment on Women’s Birth Experiences

• Published in: Value in health Vol. 18; no. 6; pp. 856 - 864
• Main Authors: Gärtner, Fania R., de Bekker-Grob, Esther W., Stiggelbout, Anne M., Rijnders, Marlies E., Freeman, Liv M., Middeldorp, Johanna M., Bloemenkamp, Kitty W.M., de Miranda, Esteriek, van den Akker-van Marle, M. Elske
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.09.2015
• Subjects: Adult; Algorithms; birth experience; Choice Behavior; Female; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Health Services Research; Humans; Internal Medicine; Life Change Events; Logistic Models; Male; Middle Aged; Mothers - psychology; Parturition - psychology; Patient Preference; Patient Safety; Perinatal Care - standards; Physician-Patient Relations; preferences; Pregnancy; Psychometrics; Quality Indicators, Health Care; Surveys and Questionnaires; tariff; utility; utility; preferences; tariff; birth experience

The aim of this study was to calculate preference weights for the Labor and Delivery Index (LADY-X) to make it suitable as a utility measure for perinatal care studies. In an online discrete choice experiment, 18 pairs of hypothetical scenarios were presented to respondents, from which they had to c...