Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Corresponding Author: Meghan E. McGrady, Ph. McGrady cchmc. Discrete choice experiments DCEs are a quantitative method of assessing patient preferences that offer numerous strengths i. To highlight the potential applications of DCEs within health psychology, this systematic review synthesizes previous efforts to utilize DCEs to inform the design of patient-centered psychological care, defined as interventions targeting psychological e.
Clinical implications as well as limitations and directions for future research are discussed. Keywords: psychological intervention, behavioral intervention, discrete choice experiment.
Thus, a critical first step in providing patient-centered psychological care is to develop interventions that align with patient and family preferences Fraenkel, These strategies provide some insight into desirable intervention characteristics, but do not assess the relative importance of each characteristic e.
Without this information, psychologists have limited guidance on how best to design care that aligns with patient and family preferences.
Random utility theory posits that individuals choose or prefer options whose characteristics maximize their utility or provide the greatest value Thurstone, To elicit this information, DCEs ask individuals to complete a series of hypothetical choice tasks. In each choice task, the individual is asked to select their preferred option from two or more alternatives e. For example, assume a health psychologist is designing an intervention to promote physical activity among college students.
