Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research · 2025
The Role of Mental Health in Healthcare Choices: A Discrete Choice Experiment Examining Preferences for Primary Care.
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Ride Jemimah, Lancsar Emily, Ozols Ingrid
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OBJECTIVES: This study examines the role of mental health in consumer healthcare choices, using a discrete choice experiment to analyze choices regarding routine primary care visits in Australia. It captures mental health through 3 variables: self-reported current mental health condition and clinically validated measures of depression and anxiety symptoms, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 capturing depression, and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale capturing anxiety.
METHODS: Data were collected during November and December 2021 from a sample (N = 568) representative of the Australian population in age, gender, and location. Participants made hypothetical choices between in-person and telehealth alternatives or a no-visit alternative. Alternatives were described in terms of general practitioner familiarity, out-of-pocket cost, wait time, waiting area size, mask requirements, and modality of telehealth.
RESULTS: The results suggest that symptoms of depression and anxiety could affect healthcare choices with opposite direction of effect on uptake and distinct from the presence of a mental health condition.
CONCLUSIONS: These findings support the need for more careful consideration of the role of mental health in the analysis of discrete choice experiments, particularly in healthcare, including a better understanding of the mechanisms and time-varying nature of any effect.
METHODS: Data were collected during November and December 2021 from a sample (N = 568) representative of the Australian population in age, gender, and location. Participants made hypothetical choices between in-person and telehealth alternatives or a no-visit alternative. Alternatives were described in terms of general practitioner familiarity, out-of-pocket cost, wait time, waiting area size, mask requirements, and modality of telehealth.
RESULTS: The results suggest that symptoms of depression and anxiety could affect healthcare choices with opposite direction of effect on uptake and distinct from the presence of a mental health condition.
CONCLUSIONS: These findings support the need for more careful consideration of the role of mental health in the analysis of discrete choice experiments, particularly in healthcare, including a better understanding of the mechanisms and time-varying nature of any effect.