PMID- 36046499 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20220907 IS - 1177-889X (Print) IS - 1177-889X (Electronic) IS - 1177-889X (Linking) VI - 16 DP - 2022 TI - Preferences for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus for Medications in Shandong Province, China: A Discrete Choice Experiment. PG - 2335-2344 LID - 10.2147/PPA.S367985 [doi] AB - PURPOSE: To evaluate preferences for medications among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) from urban community health stations or rural village clinics in Shandong province, China. METHODS: We use a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to measure the medication preferences. Each patient completed six DCE choice sets. The attributes for the DCE questionnaire include mode of administration, out-of-pocket medication cost per month, fasting blood glucose control effect and frequency of hypoglycemia events. The conditional logit model (Clogit) and mixed logit model (MXL) were used to evaluate choice data. RESULTS: A total of 887 patients with T2DM completed the survey. The mean age of participants was 64 years, 36.42% experienced complications, and the mean duration of diabetes was about 8 years. Overall, patients' ideal medication would not have hypoglycemia events, provide normal fasting glucose levels, have oral medication three times a day and lower monthly medication cost. Patients prioritized the frequency of hypoglycemia events (beta=15.055, P < 0.01) and were willing to spend CNY 393.10 per month to avoid hypoglycemia events. For patients with higher educational levels and with longer diagnosis time, the effect of fasting blood glucose was more relevant than all other outcomes. CONCLUSION: This study provides information on T2DM patients' preference for medications. Our results suggest that clinical doctors should present patients with a variety of pharmaceutical characteristics and include their preference into medication decision, which will improve patient adherence and health outcomes. CI - (c) 2022 Lv et al. FAU - Lv, Yuyu AU - Lv Y AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1275-5446 AD - Center for Health Management and Policy Research, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China. AD - NHC Key Laboratory of Health Economics and Policy Research (Shandong University), Jinan, People's Republic of China. FAU - Ren, Ru AU - Ren R AD - Center for Health Management and Policy Research, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China. AD - NHC Key Laboratory of Health Economics and Policy Research (Shandong University), Jinan, People's Republic of China. AD - Center for Health Preference Research, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China. FAU - Tang, Chengxiang AU - Tang C AD - Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University Business School & Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia. FAU - Song, Kuimeng AU - Song K AD - School of Health Care Security, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, People's Republic of China. FAU - Li, Shunping AU - Li S AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8144-6220 AD - Center for Health Management and Policy Research, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China. AD - NHC Key Laboratory of Health Economics and Policy Research (Shandong University), Jinan, People's Republic of China. AD - Center for Health Preference Research, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China. FAU - Wang, Haipeng AU - Wang H AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1315-3474 AD - Center for Health Management and Policy Research, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China. AD - NHC Key Laboratory of Health Economics and Policy Research (Shandong University), Jinan, People's Republic of China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220825 PL - New Zealand TA - Patient Prefer Adherence JT - Patient preference and adherence JID - 101475748 PMC - PMC9423121 OTO - NOTNLM OT - discrete choice experiment OT - medication OT - patients' preference OT - type 2 diabetes mellitus COIS- The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work. EDAT- 2022/09/02 06:00 MHDA- 2022/09/02 06:01 PMCR- 2022/08/25 CRDT- 2022/09/01 02:30 PHST- 2022/03/31 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/08/10 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/09/01 02:30 [entrez] PHST- 2022/09/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/09/02 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2022/08/25 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 367985 [pii] AID - 10.2147/PPA.S367985 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Patient Prefer Adherence. 2022 Aug 25;16:2335-2344. doi: 10.2147/PPA.S367985. eCollection 2022.