Intervention to Promote Childhood Vaccinations and Influence Vaccination Attitudes

Necmettin Erbakan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Childhood Vaccination; Vaccine Hesitancy

Treatments: Other: Health Belief Model Based Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05425823

221430001

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to determine the effect of pregnant women aged 18 years and older who have completed their 28th week of pregnancy and received intervention based on the Health Belief Model, on encouraging childhood vaccinations and influencing their vaccination attitudes, compared to pregnant women who receive standard care group. The 12-month vaccination rate of newborns and the change in their attitudes will be determined according to the Public Attitude Towards Vaccination Scale - Health Belief Model.

Full description

Today, vaccines are still recognized as one of the most important public health services, and millions of lives are saved each year. Despite the success of vaccination, such as eradicating certain diseases in the community and preventing epidemics, it is the fact that approximately 20 million infants/children have insufficient access to vaccines every year. The main reasons for this are vaccine hesitancy or vaccine rejection. Deaths from measles decreased by 73% worldwide between 2000 and 2018, preventing an estimated 23.2 million deaths. According to the Extended Immunization Program in our country, 13 routine vaccines in total are provided free of charge by primary health care services. According to the results of the Turkey Demographic and Health Surveys, the minimum vaccinations required for 12-23 month old children to be deemed to have received all age-appropriate vaccines are as follows; one dose of tuberculosis vaccine, three doses of pertussis-tetanus-polio-hemophilus influenza type b vaccine, three doses of hepatitis b vaccine, three doses of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, one dose of oral polio vaccine. Considering both the vaccination card of the children (59%) and the personal statements (8%) of the mothers in our society, it was determined that only 67% of the children aged 12-23 months received all age-appropriate vaccinations. In addition, 2% of 12-23-month-old children have never been vaccinated. In addition, 50% of 24-35 months old children have all their age-appropriate vaccinations, while 3% have never been vaccinated. Looking at all these rates, it is seen that some babies/children are not vaccinated for various reasons, even in our country alone. To increase vaccination rates, preventive interventions should be developed to identify the causes of vaccine hesitations and reduce these hesitations. What needs to be done first to eliminate vaccine hesitations should be to increase the perceived sensitivity of individuals to the vaccine and decrease their expectations for negative results. At the same time, it is necessary to know the factors that cause negative attitudes about vaccination and to make them positive so that attitudes can turn into behaviors. According to the Health Belief Model, which is one of the models related to the development and maintenance of health behaviors, the probability of a person taking action to prevent the disease depends on the perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefit, and perceived barrier factors, and indirectly includes the probability of exhibiting preventive health behavior. Among the factors affecting the vaccination decision of pregnant women, vaccine risk perceptions are effective; It has been determined that pregnant women who have general knowledge about the vaccine, those who know that there is a national vaccination policy, and those who believe that the vaccine is beneficial for their babies are more likely to be vaccinated. For this reason, it is recommended that the advice of healthcare professionals should be personalized. In line with all these data, the aim of the study is to examine the effectiveness of the intervention of training to be given to pregnant women about childhood vaccinations and sending messages to their spouses within the framework of the Health Belief Model; to evaluate the effect on childhood vaccination rates and vaccination attitudes in the postpartum period.

Enrollment: 54 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The pregnant woman and her spouse are Turkish literate,
• Completing the 28th week of pregnancy,
• Desire to participate in the study,
• The pregnant's spouse has any type of mobile phone.

Exclusion criteria

• The pregnant woman has any mental problem that causes learning difficulties or has been diagnosed (if detected in the pregnancy outpatient clinic record).
• 38 weeks of pregnancy and above
• Living outside of the 3 central districts of Konya (Selçuklu, Meram, Karatay)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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54 participants in 3 patient groups

Education and message

Experimental group

Description:

In Intervention Group 1, a face-to-face training session based on the Health Belief Model will be given once a week and SMS-based short messages will be sent to the spouse. Vaccination rates of children in the intervention group-1 in the study at the end of the 1st, 6th and 12th months will be evaluated. Public Attitudes Towards Vaccination Scale-Health Belief Model sub-dimensions (severity, susceptibility, benefit, barrier, health motivation) scores of the intervention group-1 at the 1st, 6th, and 12th months after birth will be evaluated.

Treatment:

Other: Health Belief Model Based Intervention

Education

Experimental group

Description:

In Intervention Group 2, face-to-face training will be provided one day a week based on the Health Belief Model. Vaccination rates of children in the intervention group-2 in the study at the end of the 1st, 6th and 12th months will be evaluated. Public Attitudes Towards Vaccination Scale-Health Belief Model sub-dimensions (severity, susceptibility, benefit, barrier, health motivation) scores of the intervention group-2 at the 1st, 6th, and 12th months after birth will be evaluated.

Treatment:

Other: Health Belief Model Based Intervention

Standard Care Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard information about childhood vaccines will be provided to the Standard Care Group at the Family Health Care Center. Vaccination rates of children in the Standard Care Group in the study at the end of the 1st, 6th and 12th months will be evaluated. Public Attitudes Towards Vaccination Scale-Health Belief Model sub-dimensions (severity, susceptibility, benefit, barrier, health motivation) scores of the Standard Care Group at the 1st, 6th, and 12th months after birth will be evaluated.