Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Professionals

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Influenza

• Registration Number: NCT00404664
• Lead Sponsor: The Cleveland Clinic

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study was to see if reminder letters and a large raffle prize would encourage health care workers to receive influenza vaccinations.

Detailed Description

Eight hundred employees of an urban tertiary care hospital, 200 each from the following four categories: professional staff, resident physicians, registered nurses, and licensed practical nurses comprised the study group. Subjects were randomly assigned to receive: 1) no intervention, 2) a reminder letter for flu vaccine, 3) a raffle ticket to win a free Caribbean vacation with flu vaccine administration, or 4) both the reminder letter and raffle ticket. We compared the proportion of employees receiving vaccination and participating in the raffle across groups.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2004-09
• Study Completion: 2005-04
• Status Verified: 2006-11
• Study First Submitted: 2006-11-28
• Study First Submitted QC: 2006-11-28
• Last Update Submitted: 2006-11-28
• Study First Posted: 2006-11-29
• Last Update Posted: 2006-11-29

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 800

Inclusion Criteria

• Hospital employees, staff physicians, residents, rn's, lpn's

Exclusion Criteria

• non patient care hospital employees

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Proportion of employees receiving vaccination and participating in the raffle across groups.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Cleveland Clinic; 🇺🇸 Cleveland, Ohio, United States