Pilot Text Message for Influenza Vaccination

Columbia University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Influenza

Treatments: Behavioral: text message

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01761734

AAAK5058

Details and patient eligibility

About

Influenza is an important and potentially preventable cause of morbidity and mortality, yet only 46% of U.S. adults were vaccinated by the end of the 2011-12 influenza season despite influenza vaccination being widely recommended, effective, and safe. Influenza vaccination rates are even lower in racial/ethnic minority groups. In order to address the problem of low influenza vaccination rates in minority adults, we plan to build on the well-accepted practice of immunization recall-reminders and the emerging practice of using text message to pilot the feasibility of using text messaging to improve influenza vaccination coverage rates in a low health literacy, largely minority, publicly insured adult population.

Enrollment: 1,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• > or = 18 years of age,
• at least one visit to the AIM clinic during the previous year
• a cell phone number in the registration system
• fluent in English or Spanish. Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

• Receipt of influenza vaccination during the 2012-2013 influenza season prior to randomization.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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1,000 participants in 2 patient groups

text message

Experimental group

Description:

receipt of text message

Treatment:

Behavioral: text message

usual care

No Intervention group

Description:

usual care