Public Preferences for Policies to Promote COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake: A Discrete Choice Experiment in The Netherlands

Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic forms an unprecedented public health, economic, and social crisis. Uptake of vaccination is critical for controlling the pandemic. Nevertheless, vaccination hesitancy is considerable, requiring policies to promote uptake. We investigate Dutch citizens’ preferences for policies that aim to promote vaccination...

“Please, you go first!” preferences for a COVID-19 vaccine among adults in the Netherlands

Background: Vaccination is generally considered the most direct way to restoring normal life after the outbreak of COVID-19, but the available COVID-19 vaccines are simultaneously embraced and dismissed. Mapping factors for vaccine hesitancy may help the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines and provide valuable insights for future pandemics. Objectives...

Societal Effects Are a Major Factor for the Uptake of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Digital Contact Tracing App in The Netherlands

Objectives: Our study investigates the extent to which uptake of a COVID-19 digital contact-tracing (DCT) app among the Dutch population is affected by its configurations, its societal effects, and government policies toward such an app. Methods: We performed a discrete choice experiment among Dutch adults including 7 attributes, that is, who...

Grote verdeeldheid over wenselijkheid van de corona-app

De overheid wil een corona-app introduceren. Met keuze-experimenten onderzoeken we de voorkeuren van Nederlanders voor de inrichting van deze app. Beleidsmakers kunnen de uitkomsten gebruiken om het draagvlak voor de app en het aantal mensen dat deze installeert te vergroten. IN HET KORT: <br/>●●Een op de drie Nederlanders zegt de corona-app...