Peer Education as a Strategy to Promote Vaccine Acceptance

NYU Langone Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Vaccine Acceptance

Treatments: Behavioral: Peer-led vaccine education intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05875779

21-01526

Details and patient eligibility

About

Effective interventions to improve uptake of vaccines among hesitant groups are urgently needed. Peer education is an effective intervention in modifying health behaviors in other conditions and may be effective in promoting vaccine confidence but has not been studied. To fill this knowledge gap, we will enroll approximately 152 parents of children age 0-18 months who are eligible for pneumococcal conjugate (PCV-13) vaccine and randomize them 1:1 to a peer-led vaccine education intervention or usual care.

Enrollment: 154 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. A parent of a child aged 0 to 18 months born at ≥35 weeks' gestation who is eligible for a dose of PCV-13. Eligibility by age defined as follows:

   1. Age 0-6 months: never received first dose or is >8 weeks from last dose (3 doses scheduled in this age group at 2, 4, and 6 months)
   2. Age 7-11 months: never received first dose or is > 8 weeks from last dose (2 doses scheduled in this age group if started at 7 months)
   3. 12-18 months: never received first dose, is >8 weeks from last dose (2 doses scheduled in this age group if started at 12 months) or is due for booster at 12-18 months having received primary series between age 2-11 months.

2. Self-identifies as Orthodox Jewish.

3. Is able to provide informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

1. Unable to communicate verbally in English or Yiddish
2. Unwilling or unable to utilize a Yiddish in-person or telephone interpreter
3. Has already participated in this study as an eligible adult or parent. A parent will only be able to participate in this study once (i.e. for only one child in the family that is eligible)
4. Has an appointment at clinic that day to specifically receive vaccines.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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154 participants in 2 patient groups

Peer-led vaccine education intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Parents randomized to peer-led vaccine education intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Peer-led vaccine education intervention

Usual Care

No Intervention group

Description:

Parents randomized to usual care.