Influenza Vaccine Randomized Educational Trial: Adult

Columbia University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Influenza; Vaccination

Treatments: Behavioral: National educational information; Behavioral: Local educational information

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02907645

AAAR0289

Details and patient eligibility

About

Influenza vaccine is recommended as routine care for all individuals who are at least 6 months of age and older. Recently, questions about vaccine safety and concerns for side effects have increased, contributing to both influenza vaccine hesitancy and refusal. In an effort to educate patients, public health entities and physicians give informational handouts in various forms.

However, recent publications have found that pro-vaccine messages can have paradoxical effects on vaccine intentions, therefore further studies on vaccine related public health communication is needed. The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of pro-vaccine messages of local data, pro-vaccine messages of national data, and no educational message on patient's receipt of the influenza vaccine. These results will help to understand the relationship between patient education and the intent to vaccinate and receipt of the influenza vaccine as well as to optimize educational information given to patients regarding the influenza vaccine.

Enrollment: 222 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• visit to study site at time of intervention

Exclusion criteria

• prior receipt of influenza vaccine that season

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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222 participants in 3 patient groups

Local educational

Experimental group

Description:

Adult patients in this arm receive educational information regarding influenza vaccination based on local data

Treatment:

Behavioral: Local educational information

National educational

Experimental group

Description:

Adult patients in this arm receive educational information regarding influenza vaccination based on national data

Treatment:

Behavioral: National educational information

Usual care

No Intervention group

Description:

No educational information other than provided as usual care by health care providers