Impact of Patient Education on Influenza Vaccine Uptake Among Community-dwelling Chinese Elderly

The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Influenza, Human

Treatments: Behavioral: Patient Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02741843

HKUCTR-1930

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to test the effectiveness of brief face-to-face patient education in increasing uptake of influenza vaccine among Chinese elderly in the community.

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Cantonese speaking
• Chinese

Exclusion criteria

• cognitively impaired
• unable to communicate effectively
• having known contraindication of vaccination
• institutionalized

Trial design

0 participants in 2 patient groups

Patient Education

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Patient Education

Control

No Intervention group