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Maximizing HPV Vaccination: Real-time Reminders, Guidance, and Recommendations - Part 4: Feasibility Trial

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University of Florida

Status

Begins enrollment in 7 months

Conditions

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccines

Treatments

Behavioral: Protect Me 4 Application + External Quality Improvement Support
Behavioral: Protect Me 4 Application Alone

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other
NIH

Identifiers

NCT03429413
R21CA202011 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
IRB201701537 -N
OCR19940 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines have potential to prevent an average of 26,900 cancer cases each year in the United States, but vaccine coverage rates remain low. The study team has developed an electronic application (app), Protect Me 4, to help parents and providers assess and have more productive conversations about needed vaccines.

The specific aims of this study are to: (1) evaluate the feasibility of implementing Protect Me 4, and (2) estimate preliminary efficacy of Protect Me 4 to increase HPV vaccine initiation (receipt of first dose).

Full description

Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines have potential to prevent an average of 26,900 cancer cases each year in the United States, but vaccine coverage rates remain low. The study team has developed a health information technology (HIT) electronic application (app), Protect Me 4, to help parents and providers assess and have more productive conversations about needed vaccines.

In past studies, Protect Me 4 users have demonstrated three times higher chances of initiating the HPV vaccine. Despite this promise, Protect Me 4 system implementation suffered from very low reach within clinics. In this phase of the project, the investigators will assess the feasibility of implementing Protect Me 4 in community clinics, as well as test vaccination rate data collection strategies and estimate the preliminary efficacy of Protect Me 4 to increase HPV vaccine initiation. Seven clinics will participate in the study, and three will be randomly assigned the use of Protect Me 4. Three of the clinics will act as controls and will not receive Protect Me 4. The final clinic will receive the intervention (but has not participated in any of the intervention development. This clinic will s as a demonstration clinic for the subsequent R01.

For evaluation, vaccination records will be grouped in three-month periods [initial (months 1-3), implementation (months 4-6) and maintenance (months 7-9)] from Medicaid and CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program) claims and Florida Immunization Registry data. During the implementation period (months 4-6), intervention clinics will receive the Protect Me 4 app and External Quality Improvement Support (practice facilitation and external and internal provider peer opinion leaders and provider incentives). During the maintenance period (months 7-9), intervention clinics will receive Protect Me 4 without external support (practice facilitation and external provider peer opinion leaders).

To evaluate effectiveness at the individual-level, the study team will compare vaccination rates between eligible adolescents who visited intervention and control clinics across the three time periods.

Enrollment

1,296 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 99 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Must be parent of an adolescent aged 11-12 years old.
  • Providers working with age appropriate for study adolescents at the intervention clinics
  • Adolescents/Parents/Providers willing to consent to participation
  • Adolescents/Parents that can read and speak English

Exclusion criteria

  • Adolescents out of the age range for participation
  • Adolescents/Parents/Providers unwilling to consent to participation
  • Adolescents/Parents that can NOT read and speak English

Trial design

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

1,296 participants in 5 patient groups

Parents
Active Comparator group
Description:
Parents of 11-12 year old children who visit participating interventional clinics during study period.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Protect Me 4 Application Alone
Behavioral: Protect Me 4 Application + External Quality Improvement Support
Health Care Provider
Active Comparator group
Description:
Health care providers and clinic staff for 11-12 year old patients at 4 participating pediatric clinics.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Protect Me 4 Application Alone
Behavioral: Protect Me 4 Application + External Quality Improvement Support
Adolescents at Intervention clinics
No Intervention group
Description:
Adolescents between 11-12 years of age. Adolescent vaccination data is used in the study, adolescents will assent to participate. The parents, however, use the HIT system.
Adolescents at Control Clinic
No Intervention group
Description:
Parents of 11-12 year old children who visit participating control clinics during study period.
Health Care Provider at Control Clinic
No Intervention group
Description:
Health care providers and clinic staff for 11-12 year old patients at 3 participating pediatric control clinics.

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Stephanie Staras, PhD; Marta Hansen

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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