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Preferences of the public for sharing health data: discrete choice experiment
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- Background: Digital technological development in the last 20 years has led to significant growth in digital collection, use, and sharing of health data. To maintain public trust in the digital society and to enable acceptable policy-making in the future, it is important to investigate people’s preferences for sharing digital health data. Objective: The aim of this study is to elicit the preferences of the public in different Northern European countries (the United Kingdom, Norway, Iceland, and Sweden) for sharing health information in different contexts. Methods: Respondents in this discrete choice experiment completed several choice tasks, in which they were asked if data sharing in the described hypothetical situation was acceptable to them. Latent class logistic regression models were used to determine attribute-level estimates and heterogeneity in preferences. We calculated the relative importance of the attributes and the predicted acceptability for different contexts in which the data were shared from the estimates. Results: In the final analysis, we used 37.83% (1967/5199) questionnaires. All attributes influenced the respondents’ willingness to share health information (P<.001). The most important attribute was whether the respondents were informed about their data being shared. The possibility of opting out from sharing data was preferred over the opportunity to consent (opt-in). Four classes were identified in the latent class model, and the average probabilities of belonging were 27% for class 1, 32% for class 2, 23% for class 3, and 18% for class 4. The uptake probability varied between 14% and 85%, depending on the least to most preferred combination of levels. Conclusions: Respondents from different countries have different preferences for sharing their health data regarding the value of a review process and the reason for their new use. Offering respondents information about the use of their data and the possibility to opt out is the most preferred governance mechanism.
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.2196/29614
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- JMIR Publications
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- JMIR Medical Informatics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 7
- Article number:
- e29614
- Publication date:
- 2021-07-03
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-05-17
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2291-9694
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English
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1186000
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pubs:1186000
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- 2021
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- © Jennifer Viberg Johansson, Heidi Beate Bentzen, Nisha Shah, Eik Haraldsdóttir, Guðbjörg Andrea Jónsdóttir, Jane Kaye, Deborah Mascalzoni, Jorien Veldwijk. Originally published in JMIR Medical Informatics (https://medinform.jmir.org), 02.07.2021. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Medical Informatics, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://medinform.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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