Assessing Barriers and Increasing Use of Immunization Registries in Pharmacies

Auburn University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Immunization

Treatments: Behavioral: Informational flyer; Behavioral: Immunization Registry Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT03796585

1R36HS026093-01A1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to identify barriers to utilization of immunization registries within a pharmacy context and tailor the information into a novel immunization registry training program.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to identify barriers to utilization of immunization registries within a pharmacy context and tailor the information learned about barriers into a novel immunization registry training program with strategies specific to individual subsets of pharmacies, independent pharmacies in rural areas. Doing so will help achieve the long-term goal which is to increase the use of immunization registries in community pharmacies in Alabama.

The specific aims are to

1. identify barriers and best practices of immunization registry implementation,
2. use a participatory design approach to develop an immunization registry training program, and
3. disseminate and assess the impact of the immunization registry training program among community pharmacies' registry participation rates.

The impact of the training program on registry participation rates will be assessed using a randomized controlled trial design comparing Alabama community pharmacies' registry data as well as intention to participate.

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• not currently enrolled in ImmPRINT
• currently provide at least one type of vaccination in addition to influenza
• independently owned
• agree to provide requested data for assessment

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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52 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Pharmacists assigned to this group will receive an immunization registry training program and informational flyer.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Informational flyer

Behavioral: Immunization Registry Training

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Pharmacists assigned to this group will receive an informational flyer. They will not receive training.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Informational flyer