PMID- 36308258
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20221101
LR  - 20221101
IS  - 1117-1936 (Print)
VI  - 29
IP  - 4
DP  - 2022 Oct-Dec
TI  - Willingness to pay for a COVID-19 vaccine for oneself and one's child among 
      individuals attending a tertiary care centre in West Bengal, India.
PG  - 296-302
LID - 10.4103/npmj.npmj_194_22 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: The free-of-cost supply could not meet the demand for coronavirus 
      disease-2019 (COVID-19) vaccines in India, so the government approved an 
      injection option with a price. We aimed to determine how much money an individual 
      would be willing to pay for a COVID-19 vaccine for themselves and their children 
      and assess the factors determining it. METHODS: We conducted a study among all 
      adults visiting the outpatient department of a government tertiary care hospital 
      in West Bengal, India, in August 2021. Trained nursing officers combined bidding 
      game and open-ended question methods during personal interviews to estimate the 
      willingness-to-pay (WTP) values. RESULTS: The mean (standard deviation) age of 
      1565 participants was 40.8 (12.2) years with 46.5% (n = 727) males, 70.4% (n = 
      1102) parents, 50.0% (n = 783) educated upto class 12 and 30.9% (n = 483) 
      belonging to upper-middle socio-economic scale (SES). The median (inter-quartile 
      range [IQR]) WTP amount for the first dose and the subsequent/booster dose among 
      the unvaccinated (50.2%, n = 785) and vaccinated (49.8%, n = 780) participants 
      were ₹0 (0-100) and ₹0 (0-200), respectively. The median (IQR) WTP for 
      inoculating children with any COVID-19 vaccine was ₹50 (0-300) in both groups. 
      Significant differences were found in the WTP prices for adult vaccines in both 
      groups concerning age category (P = 0.02), education (P < 0.01) and SES (P < 
      0.01). CONCLUSION: Although more than half of the respondents were unwilling to 
      pay for themselves, WTP for COVID-19 vaccination was higher for their children. 
      Policy-makers should consider income, education and age to cap the private sector 
      vaccination price.
FAU - Rehman, Tanveer
AU  - Rehman T
AD  - Indian Council of Medical Research-Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneswar, 
      Odisha, India.
FAU - Mallick, Ajay
AU  - Mallick A
AD  - Department of Otorhinolaryngology (ENT), All India Institute of Medical Sciences, 
      Kalyani, West Bengal, India.
FAU - Ahamed, Farhad
AU  - Ahamed F
AD  - Department of Community Medicine and Family Medicine, All India Institute of 
      Medical Sciences, Kalyani, West Bengal, India.
FAU - Kanungo, Srikanta
AU  - Kanungo S
AD  - Indian Council of Medical Research-Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneswar, 
      Odisha, India.
FAU - Pati, Sanghamitra
AU  - Pati S
AD  - Indian Council of Medical Research-Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneswar, 
      Odisha, India.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Nigeria
TA  - Niger Postgrad Med J
JT  - The Nigerian postgraduate medical journal
JID - 9613595
RN  - 0 (COVID-19 Vaccines)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Male
MH  - Child
MH  - Humans
MH  - *COVID-19 Vaccines
MH  - Tertiary Care Centers
MH  - *COVID-19/epidemiology/prevention & control
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Nigeria
MH  - India
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Coronavirus disease-2019 vaccines
OT  - India
OT  - cross-sectional studies
OT  - health expenditures
OT  - parents
OT  - vaccination
COIS- None
EDAT- 2022/10/30 06:00
MHDA- 2022/11/02 06:00
CRDT- 2022/10/29 05:13
PHST- 2022/10/29 05:13 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/10/30 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/11/02 06:00 [medline]
AID - NigerPostgradMedJ_2022_29_4_296_359762 [pii]
AID - 10.4103/npmj.npmj_194_22 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Niger Postgrad Med J. 2022 Oct-Dec;29(4):296-302. doi: 10.4103/npmj.npmj_194_22.