Vaccine Hesitancy Intervention--Provider (VHIP)

Kaiser Permanente

Status: Completed

Conditions: Childhood Vaccination

Treatments: Behavioral: Academic Detailing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01667354

250147

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary aim of this trial is to test the effectiveness of an intervention to train primary care physicians to determine if it leads to decreased parental vaccine hesitancy.

Full description

The primary aim of this trial is to test the effectiveness of an intervention to train primary care physicians to determine if it leads to decreased parental vaccine hesitancy. The investigators will train primary care teams with an initial training followed by telephone coaching and follow-up visits, and assess the outcomes of parental vaccine hesitancy (primary) and physician self-efficacy (secondary) at baseline and 6 months.

Enrollment: 491 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Study population:

• Eligible pediatric and family medicine practices in three counties in Washington State; King, Pierce and Snohomish Counties.
• Mothers whose infants will receive care in participating clinics.

Inclusion Clinics:

• Located in King, Snohomish, Pierce Counties, WA;
• Family practice clinics;
• Pediatric practice clinics;
• Order > 1000 doses of vaccine in 2009 from State of Washington Department of Health.

Exclusion Clinics: Not willing to be randomized.

Inclusion Mothers:

• Babies born at participating hospitals;
• Mother can be recruited before discharged post-birth;
• Mothers declare pediatric care at one of participating clinics;
• Singleton or twin pregnancies.

Exclusion Mothers:

• Babies born < 36 weeks gestational age;
• Known medical vaccine contraindications;
• Parental age < 18;
• NICU;
• Triplet or more;
• Maternal complications.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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491 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Clinics

Experimental group

Description:

Providers in intervention clinics will receive a training followed by telephone coaching and follow-up visits for six months.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Academic Detailing

Control Clinics

No Intervention group

Description:

Control clinics will receive all intervention materials at the completion of the study.