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Table 2 Feasibility assessment includes competition rankings, reported difficulty of each preference elicitation method

From: Testing the feasibility of eliciting preferences for health states from adolescents using direct methods

n = 144

Visual analogue scale

n (%)

Time trade-off

n (%)

Standard gamble

n (%)

Participants who completed all rankings

144 (100)

109 (76)

139 (97)

Difficulty of method

 Very easy

118 (82)

95 (66)

110 (76)

 Not too easy / Not too difficult

25 (17)

31 (22)

30 (21)

 Very difficult

1 (1)

6 (4)

3 (2)

 Missing

0 (0)

12 (8)

1 (1)

Needed help completing the method

 Yes

24 (17)

23 (16)

23 (16)

 No

119 (83)

109 (76)

120 (83)

 Missing

1 (1)

12 (8)

1 (1)

Who provided help

 Parent

13 (54)

9 (39)

7 (30)

 Sibling

1 (4)

5 (22)

5 (22)

 Friend

8 (33)

7 (30)

8 (35)

 Other

1 (4)

2 (9)

3 (13)

 Missing

1 (4)

0 (0)

0 (0)