Papers by Monica Bibiana Prada Paez
The patient, 2018
Providers often prescribe counseling and/or medications for tobacco cessation without considering... more Providers often prescribe counseling and/or medications for tobacco cessation without considering patients' treatment preferences. The primary aims of this study are to describe (1) the development of a discrete choice experiment (DCE) questionnaire designed to identify the attributes and levels of tobacco treatment that are most important to veterans; and (2) the decision-making process in choosing between hypothetical tobacco treatments. We recruited current smokers who were already scheduled for a primary care appointment within a single Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system. Subjects were asked to rate the importance of selected treatment attributes and were interviewed during two rounds of pilot testing of initial DCE instruments. Key attributes and levels of the initial instruments were identified by targeted literature review; the instruments were iteratively revised after each round of pilot testing. Using a 'think aloud' approach, subjects were interviewed whi...
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Papers by Monica Bibiana Prada Paez