Antitetanus Vaccination for People Older Than 65 Years. (VAT65)

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tetanus

Treatments: Other: Questionnaire Patients; Other: Questionnaire General practitioner

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03266211

69HCL17_0375

Details and patient eligibility

About

In the last ten years, more than one hundred generalized tetanus cases were declared in France. Most of them were affecting people older than 70 years with an important mortality (around 28%). It is know that the only way to protect ourselves from this disease is the vaccination. In France tetanus vaccination is mandatory since 1940.

Nowaday none study looked specifically for the vaccination of people older than 65 years. The hypothesis is: there is a difference in the tetanus vaccination coverage for people older than 65 years depending on the demographic and medical practice of their general practitioner.

Enrollment: 261 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients older than 65 years consulting their attending physician in and who agreed to participate in the study.
• The doctors included are general practitioners located in a liberal office in the "Auvergne Rhône Alpes" region for which the URPS ("Union régional des Professionnels de Santé") has an email address.

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

261 participants in 2 patient groups

Patients

Description:

People older than 65 years in the Auvergne-Rhônes-Alpes region who are consulting their general practitioner.

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaire Patients

General practitioner

Description:

General practitioner of the Auvergne-Rhônes-Alpes region

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaire General practitioner