Research Conducted at National Institute of Public Health Has Updated Our Knowledge about Health Insurance (Impact of Survey Administration Mode on…

Research Conducted at National Institute of Public Health Has Updated Our Knowledge about Health Insurance (Impact of Survey Administration Mode on the Results of a Health-Related Discrete Choice Experiment: Online and Paper Comparison)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Current study results on Health Insurance have been published. According to news reporting from Bilthoven, Netherlands, by VerticalNews journalists, research stated, "Electronic data collection is increasingly being used for discrete choice experiments (DCEs). To study whether paper or electronic administration results in measurement effects."

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the National Institute of Public Health, "Respondents were drawn from the same sample frame (an Internet panel) and completed a nearly identical DCE survey either online or on paper during the same period. A DCE on preferences for basic health insurance served as a case study. We used panel mixed logit models for the analysis. In total, 898 respondents completed the survey: 533 respondents completed the survey online, whereas 365 respondents returned the paper survey. There were no significant differences with respect to sociodemographic characteristics between the respondents in both samples. The median response time was shorter for the online sample than for the paper sample, and a smaller proportion of respondents from the online sample were satisfied with the number of choice sets. Although some willingness to-pay estimates were higher for the online sample, the elicited preferences for basic health insurance characteristics were similar between both modes of administration. We find no indication that online surveys yield inferior results compared with paper-based surveys, whereas the price per respondent is lower for online surveys. Researchers might want to include fewer choice sets per respondent when collecting DCE data online."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "Because our findings are based on a nonrandomized DCE that covers one health domain only, research in other domains is needed to support our findings."

For more information on this research see: Impact of Survey Administration Mode on the Results of a Health-Related Discrete Choice Experiment: Online and Paper Comparison. Value in Health, 2017;20(7):953-960. Value in Health can be contacted at: Elsevier Science Inc, 360 Park Ave South, New York, NY 10010-1710, USA. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Value in Health - www.journals.elsevier.com/value-in-health/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting M.S. Lambooij, Natl Inst Public Hlth & Environm RIVM, Center Nutr Prevent & Hlth Serv Res, NL-3720 BA Bilthoven, Netherlands. Additional authors for this research include D. Determann, E.W. Steyerberg, E.W. de Bekker-Grob and G.A. de Wit.

Keywords for this news article include: Bilthoven, Netherlands, Europe, Health Insurance, National Institute of Public Health.

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