VSMRCT: Vaccine Social Media Randomized Intervention Trial
Study Details
Study Description
Brief Summary
This study will assess the effectiveness of social media website devoted to vaccines to change immunization knowledge, perceptions and behavior. If effective, this intervention will represent an innovative, low cost and broadly applicable resource to reduce parental vaccination concerns.
The study has two hypothesis:
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Parents receiving usual care plus social media website will demonstrate higher early childhood immunization rates to parents receiving either usual plus non interactive website or usual care only.
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Parents receiving usual care plus social media website will demonstrate positive changes in knowledge, attitudes and beliefs supporting vaccination compared to parents receiving either usual care plus non-interactive website or usual care only.
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Detailed Description
Participants will be enrolled in the study, stratified based on hesitancy and randomly assigned to 1 of 3 study arms and followed for 1-2 years.
Study Design
Arms and Interventions
| Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
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| Experimental: Social media plus information pages Participants will have access to the vaccine social media website with information pages and social media features including discussion forums, blogs, chat with an expert, and ask an expert. |
Behavioral: Social Media plus information pages
Participants will receive access to the study vaccine website information pages and social media feature including blogs, discussion forums, expert chats, and ask an expert.
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| Experimental: Information Pages Participants will have website access to vaccine information pages. |
Behavioral: Vaccine Information Pages
Participants will receive access to the study vaccine website information pages.
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| No Intervention: Usual Care Participants will not have access to the vaccine website. They will receive pediatric care as usual. |
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
- Days under-immunized [2 years]
Days under-immunized is a metric to identify immunization delay. For each vaccine dose calculate the difference between when the vaccine dose was actually administered and when the vaccine dose should have been administered according to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) schedule. That difference is summed across all doses and vaccines for a total number of days under-immunized for each child. Total days under immunized was calculated 200 days after life or after enrollment. If someone had 0 days at that time they were considered "up to date".
Secondary Outcome Measures
- Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs about immunizations [Baseline, Child age 3-5 months, Child age 12-15 months]
Knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs will be measured with a survey at up to 3 time points during the study: 1) Initial enrollment in the study, 2) child's ag=4-6 months and 3) child's age=11-13 months.
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
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Women >20 weeks Pregnant (including parents of children up to 1 year of age).
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18 years of age
Exclusion Criteria:
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Non english speak
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Do not intend to use Kaiser insurance for the child
Contacts and Locations
Locations
| Site | City | State | Country | Postal Code | |
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| 1 | Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research | Denver | Colorado | United States | 80231 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
- Kaiser Permanente
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Jason M Glanz, PhD, Kaiser Permanente
Study Documents (Full-Text)
None provided.More Information
Publications
None provided.- 1R01HS021492-01