About the Authors

Terry Porteous

Contributed equally to this work with: Terry Porteous, Verity Watson

Affiliation Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Applied Health Sciences, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom

Mandy Ryan

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Applied Health Sciences, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom

Christine Bond

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Academic Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Applied Health Sciences, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom

Margaret Watson

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Applied Health Sciences, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom

Verity Watson

Contributed equally to this work with: Terry Porteous, Verity Watson

v.watson@abdn.ac.uk

Affiliation Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Applied Health Sciences, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VW MR TP. Performed the experiments: VW TP. Analyzed the data: VW TP. Wrote the paper: TP MR CB MW VW. Design and conduct of MINA study, which helped inform the attributes for the DCE: MW CB TP.