Evaluation of the School Kids Influenza Prevention Project (SKIPP)

University of Rochester

Status: Completed

Conditions: Childhood Influenza Vaccination; School-located Influenza Vaccination

Treatments: Other: Text message notification

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03307642

Version 3.01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Children whose parents receive text reminders are more likely to be consented to participate in the school located influenza vaccination clinic than children whose parents do not receive text reminders.

Enrollment: 18,540 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 19 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Enrolled in the urban school district

Exclusion criteria

• Attends a school in the urban district containing a school-based health center

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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18,540 participants in 2 patient groups

SLIV + usual communication

No Intervention group

Description:

Parents receive usual communication from school (paper consent packets \& automated voice mails) about SLIV

SLIV + usual communication + text

Active Comparator group

Description:

Parents receive usual communication from school (paper consent packets \& automated voice mails) about SLIV plus a series of text messages informing them about the usual communication for SLIV

Treatment:

Other: Text message notification