Promotion of Influenza Vaccination in Healthcare Workers During the Recruitment Visit

Service de Médecine Préventive Hospitalière

Status: Completed

Conditions: Human Influenza Vaccination in Healthcare Workers

Treatments: Other: Flu vaccination information in 3 phases

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02758145

MDP-2016-00296-FLU

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will compare two groups, an intervention group with a control group. Each employee of the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV) and the University Medical Policlinic of Lausanne (PMU) who will do his recruitment visit at the occupational medicine unit of the CHUV between 04/29/16 (end of previous influenza epidemic) and 31/10/16 (the day before the start of the next influenza vaccination campaign) and exert a function in regular contact with patients will be eligible. Depending on his employee number (assigned by the human resources administration, independent of any parameter), he will be placed in the intervention group G1 (odd number) or in the control group G2 (even number). The information concerning the distribution of these two groups will be noted in the computerized medical records of the employee at the occupational medicine unit (Medipho4D software, secured database). Thereafter, the employee will be received by the nurse of the he occupational medicine unit for a recruitment visit according to the usual process. The nurse will perform the study intervention in addition to the usual procedure if it is stipulated ''intervention group'' on the employee's record in the database or only perform the usual steps if it is stipulated ''control group''. At the beginning of the next influenza vaccination campaign (mid-November 2016), employees in the intervention group will receive a letter reminding then about the intervention given during the recruitment visit and inviting them to get vaccinated. During the next influenza vaccination campaign (11.01.16) and until the end of the influenza epidemic that will follow (April 2017), each employee will have the opportunity to be vaccinated at the different vaccination stalls set up by the occupational medicine unit. For each employee vaccinated, the date of vaccination and vaccine name is entered in the electronic medical records of the occupational medicine unit (Medipho4D software) by a nurse or a secretary of the unit. At the end of the human influenza epidemic (April 2017), the data will be extracted from the database (Medipho4D software) and anonymized by an individual not implicated in the study. Data from two groups will be analyzed and compared to assess whether the intervention conducted among newly hired employees promotes influenza vaccination.

Enrollment: 379 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ≥ 18 years old
• Employees of CHUV (University Hospital of Lausanne) or PMU (University Policlinic of Lausanne) who work regularly in contact with patients
• Employees who must do the recruitment visit at the occupational medicine unit of the CHUV

Exclusion criteria

• No exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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379 participants in 2 patient groups

Influenza vaccine information (G1)

Active Comparator group

Description:

During the recruitment visit at the occupational medicine unit between the 04/29/16 and the 10/31/16, the workers in this group (G1) in addition to their recruitment visit, will benefit from a short intervention given by the nurse concerning the flu, the advantages of the flu vaccination, and how they can be vaccinated in the institution. The nurse also transmits an information sheet concerning the benefits of the vaccination. 2 weeks after the beginning of the next flu vaccination campaign, they will receive a reminder letter to encourage vaccination.

Treatment:

Other: Flu vaccination information in 3 phases

No information (G2)

No Intervention group

Description:

Workers in the control group (G2) receive no intervention, only recruitment visit.