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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 28.
Published in final edited form as: Patient. 2010;3(3):145–157. doi: 10.2165/11530660

Table 2.

Group-level relative preference weights for the mild and severe depression scenarios. Negative relative preference weights are interpreted as less desirable than the reference attribute while positive relative preference weights are interpreted as more desirable than the reference attribute.

Mild-depression scenario Severe depression scenario
Attribute Levels Group-
level
relative
preference
weight
estimate
Standard
error of the
group
relative
preference
weight
estimate
p-value Group-
level
relative
preference
weight
estimate
Standard
error of the
group
relative
preference
weight
estimate
p-value

Type of
treatment
Medication −2.39 0.11 < 0.001 −3.35 0.74 < 0.001
Counseling
(reference)

Side effect
of
medication
Nausea −0.92 0.58 0.11 −0.65 0.81 0.43
Dizziness −0.38 0.46 0.41 −0.68 0.78 0.39
Sexual
dysfunction
(reference)

Severity of
medication
side effect
Mild 5.58 0.69 < 0.001 7.98 0.96 < 0.001
Moderate 0.68 0.59 0.25 −0.11 0.69 0.87
Severe
(reference)

Frequency
of
counseling
Once each week −1.19 0.39 0.003 −1.32 0.59 0.01
Every 2 weeks
(reference)

Location of
counseling
Office of a spiritual
counselor
−2.21 0.47 < 0.001 −3.04 0.72 < 0.001
Primary care
doctor’s office
1.33 0.45 0.004 1.77 0.57 0.003
Mental health
professional’s
office (reference)