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. 2022 Mar 2;17:101058. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101058

Table 1.

Attributes and levels of the discrete choice experiment.

Attributes Levels (labels) Levels (short definition)
Disease Respiratory disease The vaccine can protect against a disease with high fever and breathlessness.
Cancer The vaccine can protect against a cancer, which could occur 20 years from now.
Genital warts The vaccine can protect against genital warts.
Safety No side effect The vaccine does not cause serious side effects.
Scientific surveillance The vaccine’s safety has been monitored for more than 10 years worldwide. No serious side effect has been scientifically confirmed.
Safety other countries In countries where most adolescents are vaccinated, the risk of a serious side effect that could be due to vaccination has not increased.
Benefit/risk The vaccine can only on rare occasions cause a serious side effect, but the benefits from vaccination are much greater than its risk.
Indirect Protection Protects only you The vaccine protects only you.
Protects others By getting vaccinated, you can avoid transmitting the infection to other persons.
Elimination By vaccinating most young people of your age, one can make the disease disappear from the population.
Coverage Not enough Not enough adolescents of your school have registered to get vaccinated.
Already one third Already one-third of adolescents of your school has registered to get vaccinated.
Most adolescents Most adolescents of your school have registered to get vaccinated (80%).
Other countries 80% In some countries like England and Portugal, more than 80% of adolescents are vaccinated.