Community residents’ preferences for chronic disease management in Primary Care Facilities in China: a stated preference survey

Table 1 Discrete choice experiment attributes and levels

Scenario	Level	Explanation
Hypothetical perceived disease severity	Minor	The perceived minor chronic diseases cause occasional discomfort and does not seriously affect daily life.
Attributes	Explanation	Levels
Service mode	Different modes of services chosen by residents when they are registered.	Specialized service General service
Medical treatment type	Different forms of medical treatment.	Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
		Modern medicine
		Integrated medicine
Out-of-pocket expenditure (OOP) (CNY, Chinese Yuan)*	Individuals actually pay the average expense of each visit for primary care services.	100
		200
		300
Traveling time to the healthcare facility	The time taken to go to the facility from home (one-way travel).	≤30mins
Traveling time to the healthcare facility		>30mins
Type of the physician	The seniority of the individual in the facility.	Junior healthcare practitioner
Type of the physician	The seniority of the individual in the facility.	Senior healthcare practitioner

*OOP was set according to the data of China Health Statistical Yearbook 2018 [8]

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