Table 2 Attributes and levels
From: Criteria for priority setting of HIV/AIDS interventions in Thailand: a discrete choice experiment
Attributes | Levels | Level coding | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
Target group | Children (Child) | Child | 0 - 12 years old |
Teenagers | Teen | 13 - 20 years old | |
High risk adults | HiRisk | ≥ 21 years old with high risk behavior e.g. sex workers, | |
men who have sex with men, injected drug users, | |||
pregnant women, etc. | |||
All adults | Adults | ≥ 21 years old without any specification | |
Gender of | Male | Male | aiming to male population |
target group | Female | Female | aiming to female population |
Both genders | BothGen | not specify gender of target group | |
Type of | Treatment and care of patients | HIV | aiming to treat HIV infected people (CD4 ≥ 200) and |
intervention | with HIV (not AIDS) | reduce HIV transmission | |
Treatment and care of patients | AIDS | aiming to treat AIDS patients (CD4 < 200) | |
with AIDS | |||
Preventing HIV | Prevent | aiming to prevent general publics from HIV infection | |
Effectiveness | Low effective | LoEff | less than 50% of participants benefit |
High effective | HiEff | more than 50% of participants benefit | |
Quality of evidence | Weak evidence | Weak | no evidence but observation and/or expert opinions |
on effectiveness | Strong evidence | Strong | evidence from domestic and/or international literatures |