From: Medical advice-seeking behaviors based on transaction cost theory
Construct | Item | Code |
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Search and information costs | Search costs: monetary | S1 |
Search costs: temporal | S2 | |
Search costs: physical and psychological | S3 | |
Negotiation costs | Negotiation costs: treatment fees | B1 |
Negotiation costs: treatment time | B2 | |
Negotiation costs: transportation time | B3 | |
Negotiation costs: transportation fees | B4 | |
Negotiation costs: opportunity costs | B5 | |
Decision-making costs | Decision-making costs: trust | D1 |
Decision-making costs: habits | D2 | |
Decision-making costs: consultations | D3 | |
Decision-making costs: other medical advice | D4 | |
Policing costs | Policing costs: physical and psychological: concerns over malpractice | M1 |
Policing costs: self-initiated online search for treatment and medicine | M2 | |
Policing costs: seeking a second opinion | M3 | |
Contract execution costs | Contract execution: physical and psychological: harmful consequences of failed treatment | E1 |
Contract execution costs: change of treatment | E2 | |
Contract execution costs: change of physician | E3 |