Courtney A Johnson, Dan N Tran, Ann Mwangi, Sandra G Sosa-Rubí, Carlos Chivardi, Martín Romero-Martínez, Sonak Pastakia, Elisha Robinson, Larissa Jennings Mayo-Wilson, Omar Galárraga
To slow the spread of COVID-19, most countries implemented stay-at-home orders, social distancing, and other nonpharmaceutical mitigation strategies. To understand individual preferences for mitigation strategies, we piloted a web-based Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) approach to recruit participants from four universities in three countries to complete a computer-based Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE). Use of these methods, in combination, can serve to increase the external validity of a study by enabling recruitment of populations underrepresented in sampling frames, thus allowing preference results to be more generalizable to targeted subpopulations...
January 11, 2022: Health Services & Outcomes Research Methodology