Preferences of gastric cancer survivors for follow-up care—a multicenter discrete choice experiment study

Purposes The purposes of this discrete choice experiment are as follows: (1) to investigate the preferences of gastric cancer survivors for follow-up care, and (2) to quantify the importance of follow-up care–related characteristics that may affect the gastric cancer survivors’ choices of their foll...

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Published in:Supportive care in cancer 2022-02, Vol.30 (2), p.1221-1229
Main Authors: Li, Hui-qin, Yuan, Hua, Wan, Guang-ying, Xue, Hui, Zhang, Xiu-ying
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aftercare
Analysis
Cancer
Cancer Survivors
Choice Behavior
Continuity of care
Gastric cancer
Humans
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Nurse specialists
Nursing
Nursing Research
Oncology
Oncology, Experimental
Original Article
Pain Medicine
Patient Preference
Patient satisfaction
Rehabilitation Medicine
Stomach cancer
Stomach Neoplasms - therapy
Surveys and Questionnaires
Survivor
Survivors
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Summary:Purposes The purposes of this discrete choice experiment are as follows: (1) to investigate the preferences of gastric cancer survivors for follow-up care, and (2) to quantify the importance of follow-up care–related characteristics that may affect the gastric cancer survivors’ choices of their follow-up, so as to provide references for the development of the follow-up strategy of gastric cancer survivors. Methods Discrete choice experimental design principle was applied to develop the survey instrument. All questionnaires were filled out by the respondents and collected on site. A mixed logit model was used to estimate gastric cancer survivors’ preferences. Willingness to pay estimates and simulations of follow-up uptake rates were calculated. Results All six attributes are significantly important for the follow-up care of gastric cancer survivors ( p  
ISSN:0941-4355
1433-7339
DOI:10.1007/s00520-021-06505-1