A best-worst scaling in Colombian patients to rank the characteristics of HIV/AIDS treatment

A. Hendriks, B. Wijnen, R. van Engelen, R. Conde, S. M. Evers, J. Gonzalez, M. Govers, A. Muhlbacher, M. Hiligsmann*

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Abstract

Aim: To elicit patients' preferences for HIV/AIDS treatment characteristics in Colombia. Materials and methods: A best-worst scaling case was used to provide a ranking of 26 HIV/AIDS treatment characteristics that were similar to a previous study conducted in Germany. In each choice task, participants were asked to choose the most important and the least important treatment characteristics from a set of five from the master list. Using the Hierarchical Bayes method, relative importance scores were calculated. Sub-group analyses were conducted according to sex, education, source of infection, symptoms, and age. Results: A total of 195 patients fully completed the questionnaire. The three most important characteristics were drug has very high efficacy (relative importance score [RIS] = 10.1), maximum prolongation of life expectancy (RIS = 9.7), and long duration of efficacy (RIS = 7.4). Sub-group analysis showed only three significant (but minor) differences between older and younger people. Conclusion: This study suggests that treatment characteristics regarding efficacy and prolongation of life are particularly important for patients in Colombia. Further investigation on how patients make trade-offs between these important characteristics and incorporating this information in clinical and policy decision-making would be needed to improve adherence with HIV/AIDS medication.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)468-473
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Medical Economics
Volume21
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2018

Keywords

  • AIDS
  • best-worst scaling
  • HIV
  • patient preferences
  • transferability
  • treatment
  • DISCRETE-CHOICE EXPERIMENTS
  • PATIENTS PREFERENCES
  • HEALTH-CARE

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