Strengthening Physician Communication About HPV Vaccines

University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver)

Status: Completed

Conditions: HPV Immunization Status

Treatments: Behavioral: Multimodal Vaccine Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT02456077

13-2785

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if a multimodal Human Papillomavirus (HPV) immunization program carried out in pediatric and family medicine practices would be more effective in improving adolescent patients' HPV immunization rates than the usual care provided to adolescents in pediatric and family medicine practices.

Enrollment: 93,582 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 9+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria for immunization rate assessment:

1. 9 years of age or older when presenting for care
2. Patients who present for care one year prior to the start of the intervention and up to two years after the start of the intervention

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Less than 9 years of age when presenting for care
2. Patient is not eligible for HPV immunization

Provider survey:

Providers who are working at participating practices during the two times a cross-sectional survey is administered.

Parent survey:

Parents of adolescents who presented for care within one 1 year prior to the two times a cross-sectional survey is administration.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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93,582 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Practices

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention offices will adopt a multi-modal vaccine program to increase their patients' vaccine rates.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Multimodal Vaccine Program

Control Practices

No Intervention group

Description:

Control offices will offer usual health care related to immunizations throughout the duration of the study.