ACTA Webinar - Discrete choice experiment checklist

26
Mar
2025

Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are a commonly used method in health and healthcare research to investigate preferences and decision making. Reporting of DCEs in health is highly variable, with multiple systematic reviews having called for improvement in reporting. Reporting checklists are routinely used (and required for publication) in other areas of health economics, but the only previously existing reporting checklists for DCEs relate to components rather than the whole study. This presentation will outline the development of the DIRECT reporting checklist for DCEs in health, and provide insights into how it can be used. Development of the checklist included a scoping review, Delphi study among DCE experts, and piloting among less experienced DCE practitioners. The ultimate aim is to improve the quality of reporting of DCEs in health, and thereby to allow readers and reviewers to assess all important aspects of the methods, and to facilitate comparison across studies by making descriptions of methods more consistent.

Presenter - Dr Jemimah Ride

Dr Ride is a health economist with a background as a medical doctor and in health policy. She completed her PhD in health economics at Monash University in 2018 and is currently a senior research fellow in the Health Economics Group, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. Her research focuses on mental health and preferences for healthcare and other goods or services that affect health. At the intersection of these two areas of work is her special interest in the role of mental health and psychological states in choice and decision making. She holds a Discovery Early Career Researcher Fellowship from the Australian Research Council to investigate incentives for employers to make meaningful investments in workplace mental health, applied to the healthcare workforce.