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Modelling End of Life Care Priorities with a Discrete Choice Experiment

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K10504
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 58010:Medical management and medical sociology-related
Research InstitutionSaitama University

Principal Investigator

BOLT Timothy  埼玉大学, 人文社会科学研究科, 准教授 (40757564)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 田宮 菜奈子  筑波大学, 医学医療系, 教授 (20236748)
Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥130,000 (Direct Cost: ¥100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥30,000)
KeywordsHealth Economics / End-of-Life Care / Advance Care Planning / Advance Directive / Palliative Care / Choice Experiments / Stated Preferennce / End-of-Life care / Choice Experiment / Stated Preference / End of Life / Stated Preferences / Terminal Care
Outline of Research at the Start

A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) among the public, older people and caregivers in Japan will be used to measure end-of-life care service feature and health outcome priorities. This includes the difficult trade-offs between direct health outcomes, Quality of Life (QoL) factors and other goals.

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study culminated in a series of discrete choice experiments to better understand the acceptance of Advance Care Planning (ACP) discussions and written Advance Directives (AD) among the public and clinicians in Japan based on the characteristics of the care plan, care recipient and ACP/AD process. The first of the choice experiments modelled the trade-offs in the Japanese public's own treatment preferences if they were to be critically ill. Additional studies modelled how different circumstances at the time of illness affect how the public feels about implementing an existing ACP/AD and also a study of competence and acceptability of ACP/AD. A parallel study with a sample of doctors and a sample of nurses for these was used to also report on clinician attitudes and experiences in implementing ACP/AD.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

This study has provided an insight into both the Japanese preferences for their own end-of-life care interventions and for what issues affect the implimenting of Advance Directives more generally. The resulting analysis and policy implications includes comparison with attitudes of clinicians.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report

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Published: 2019-04-18   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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