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Table 2 Description of WTP study characteristics

From: Men’s willingness to pay for prostate cancer screening: a systematic review

Author/year

Country

Study aim

Respondents (N = sample size)

Response rate

Examination test

CVM techniques

Regression model

Significant factors

Number of scenarios

Statistical measure

Neumannet al. 2010 [18]

USA

Assesses how much people would pay for a laboratory test that predicted their future disease status.

688 men without symptoms—age not presented

0.96%

Predictive test

Double-bounded, dichotomous-choice approach

Logistic regression and maximum likelihood regression

Age (negative)

Household Income (positive)

Risk score (positive)

Education (negative)

Gender (positive)

2

Median $263 for perfect and mean $622 for the perfect prostate cancer test in risk disease 25%

Yasunaga 2008 [19]

Japan

Estimating the willingness to pay (WTP) for prostate cancer screening with prostate-specific antigen (PSA).

400 men without symptoms aged 50–59

0.33%

PSA

A double bound dichotomous choice approach

Weibull regression analysis

Age (positive)

Annual household income (positive)

Family history of cancer (positive)

1

The mean WTP was ¥1670 ($15.2)

Yasunaga et al. 2006 [20]

Japan

Verifying this hypothesis that having sufficient information will reduce men’s desire for screening.

137 men without symptoms aged 40–59

0.36%

PSA

Payment Card

Categorical regression analysis

Age (positive)

Household income (positive) Hospitalization History (positive)

1

The mean WTP for prostate-specific antigen screening was $18.90

Yasunaga et al. 2011 [21]

Japan

Comparing the WTP between well-informed and ill-informed men to pay for PSA screening.

1800 men without symptoms aged 50–69 years

0.50%

PSA

Double-bound dichotomous choice method.

Weibull regression analysis

Household income (positive) history of receiving PSA screening (positive)

 

The average WTP was significantly greater in group 1 than in group 2 ($31.1 vs. $25.1,)

Pedersen et al. 2011 [22]

Denmark

Assessing the impact of public and private health care services, and the extent to which negative information on the PSA-test influences the perceptions of the screening programmed.

1535 men without symptoms aged 50–70 years

0.40%

PSA

Double bounded dichotomous choice

multiple regression

Household income (positive)

Employment (negative)

Prior PSA-test (negative)

User fees (positive)

3

Full sample—excluding protesters (DDK)

Public provision and low information = 85.3

Mayer et al. 2018 [23]

German

Achieving insight into men’s attitudes in genetic testing for PCa.

4699 prostate cancer patients

0.70%

PSA

Double bounded dichotomous choice

logistic regression

Self-reported economic situation (positive)

Family history (positive)

Education (positive)

3

Up to 500 Euro