Conversation With Family Doctor to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake

Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: COVID-19

Treatments: Behavioral: Telephone call about vaccination

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05207137

Cristin-ID: 2526531

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will randomise individuals from family doctors' lists of patients that are at risk of severe Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), and that are not registered as having taken the vaccine against the disease. The patients will be randomised to receiving a phone call from their family physician where the participants are given the opportunity to raise questions they might have around vaccination. The investigators will assess whether this has an impact on vaccine uptake.

Enrollment: 654 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Belonging to group at risk of severe COVID-19

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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654 participants in 2 patient groups

Telephone call from family physician

Experimental group

Description:

Individuals allocated to the experimental arm will receive a phone call from the their family physician, where they are offered the opportunity to raise questions they might have about the COVID-19 vaccine.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Telephone call about vaccination

Usual care

No Intervention group