Head-to-head comparisons of preference-weighted questionnaires are limited.
For comparisons of preferences in the control- and test condition, and comparisons between pro-social tendencies, exact Wilcoxon signed ranks tests were used.
Therefore, additional comparisons of preference-based instruments against other external instruments may be required.
The DCE approach allows for comparison of preferences between groups, and assessment of whether differences are statistically significant.
This analysis allows a comparison of preferences for all levels of all attributes relative to a single reference level.
Strengths of this study were, however, its largely representative sample of the general population and its accurate comparison of preferences regarding the programme format.
In this article we present a direct comparison of preferences for job postings among nursing students and practicing nurses in Laos.
Given the aim to identify both similarities and differences between patient and nurse preferences, we designed a DCE survey that can be presented to both patients and nurses with only slight wording modifications, to support a direct comparison of preferences.
Although our research was limited to the comparison of preferences between two age groups, it was certainly interesting to ascertain whether the significant economic growth in recent decades in Poland has played any role in the differences in attitude revealed between younger and older people.
