Table 4 DCE patient survey respondents: DCE responses, individual characteristics and ‘current’ situation at 24-month follow-up
From: What, who and when? Incorporating a discrete choice experiment into an economic evaluation
| Â | All Medman trial participants | Trial groups | Intervention subgroups | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Intervention and control together | Intervention | Control | Â | Intervention still receiving at 24Â months | Intervention not receiving at 24Â months | Â |
N (%)a | N (%)a | N (%)a | P valueb | N (%)a | N (%)a | P valueb | |
DCE completed | 714 (100) | 469 (100) | 245 (100) | - | 247 (100) | 222 (100) | - |
DCE passing rationality tests | 676 (95) | 441 (94) | 235 (96) | - | 232 (94) | 208 (94) | - |
DCE eligible for analysisc | 554 (78) | 364 (77.8) | 190 (77.5) | - | 188 (76.1) | 176 (79.3) | - |
Gender (male) | 387 (54) | 250 (69) | 137 (72) | 0.40 | 125 (66) | 125 (71) | 0.35 |
Age (mean (SD)) | 70.595 (8.31) | 70.44 (8.53) | 70.75 (8.09) | 0.67 | 72.00 (8.23) | 68.77 (8.55) | <0.01 |
Income | Â | Â | Â | 0.08 | Â | Â | <0.01 |
-Up to £20,000 | 366 (51) | 249 (79) | 117 (71) | 152 (87) | 97 (69) | ||
-£20,000-£40,000 | 100 (14) | 57 (18) | 43 (26) | 20 (11) | 37 (26) | ||
-Over £40,000 | 14 (2) | 9 (3) | 5 (3) | 2 (1) | 7 (5) | ||
‘Current’ situation | |||||||
Advice | Â | Â | Â | 0.98 | Â | Â | <0.01 |
- No advice | 230 (32) | 150 (41) | 80 (42) | 36 (19) | 114 (65) | ||
-On medicines only | 175 (25) | 114 (31) | 61 (32) | 79 (42) | 35 (20) | ||
- On health only | 9 (1) | 6 (2) | 3 (2) | 1 (1) | 5 (3) | ||
-On Medicines/Health/life | 140 (20) | 94 (26) | 46 (24) | 72 (38) | 22 (13) | ||
Privacy (yes) | 308 (43) | 215 (59) | 93 (49) | 0.23 | 146 (78) | 69 (39) | <0.01 |
Replies (yes) | 267 (37) | 186 (51) | 81 (43) | 0.06 | 130 (69) | 56 (32) | <0.01 |
Chance | Â | Â | Â | 0.34 | Â | Â | <0.01 |
-Very poor | 14 (2) | 9 (2) | 5 (3) | 3 (2) | 6 (3) | ||
-Poor | 204 (29) | 140 (39) | 64 (34) | 93 (50) | 47 (27) | ||
-Good | 297 (42) | 190 (52) | 107 (56) | 88 (47) | 102 (58) | ||
-Very Good | 36 (5) | 23 (6) | 13 (7) | 3 (2) | 20 (11) | ||
Time (median [IQR]) | 15 [10–30] | 15 [10–30] | 15 [10–30] | 1 | 15 [10–25] | 17.5 [10–30] | 0.03 |
Cost (median [IQR]) | 0 [0–0.58] | 0 [0–0.58] | 0 [0–0.8] | 0.53 | 0 [0–0.4] | 0 [0–0.8] | 0.03 |