Measuring Mental Health Service Preferences Amongst Illinois Dairy Producers.

Objectives: To mitigate mental health concerns of farmers, research is needed to investigate strategies that encourage help-seeking behavior in this population. This study attempts to identify those help-seeking strategies. Six mental health service options were examined.

Horse Owner Preferences for Equine Insurance Policies.

Equine life and health insurance policies provide coverage for veterinary expenses or the loss of use (or life) of a horse, making horse health care accessible to more owners. Utilizing a best-worst scaling choice experiment targeted to horse owners, the rate of insurance adoption is explored, along with factors influencing insurance decisions and willingness-to-pay for policy attributes. Results indicate owners with lower-valued horses prefer insurance policies which cover medical expenses and routine care, whereas owners with higher-valued horses are willing to pay higher premiums to insure the market value of a horse but are not willing to pay extra for programs covering routine care.

An examination of help-seeking preferences via best-worst scaling.

Objective: This study utilized best-worst scaling and latent class analysis to assess mental health treatment preferences and identify subgroups of college student help seekers.

Method: College students (N = 504; age: M = 20.3, 79.