Educational Intervention to Improve Vaccine Acceptance
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Vaccine Hesitancy
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University
- Enrollment
- 155
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in parental attitude regarding vaccines
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 11 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
This research project will develop an educational intervention to improve immunization acceptance by vaccine hesitant parents. This is prospective interventional case-control trial, where the investigators will provide the intervention in the clinical setting. Enrollees will be screened and selected if they meet criteria for "vaccine hesitancy". The investigators will conduct follow up surveys following the intervention to assess change in attitude and follow immunization rates through 18 month well visit.
Detailed Description
The intervention is a 8 minute video addressing common concerns that have been reported by vaccine hesitant parents. The video includes an expert in pediatric infectious diseases answering these common questions as well as 3 parental accounts of children who contracted vaccine preventable diseases. Also, the interventional group will be provided with two handouts: one listed information on how parents can find accurate vaccine information on the internet, and another that addresses more common concerns of vaccine hesitant parents and available for our use from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Vaccine Center website.
Investigators
Elizabeth Williams
Research Instructor
Vanderbilt University
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •\> 18 years old for parent
- •\< 30 days old for infant
- •full term (\>37 weeks gestational age) infant
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in parental attitude regarding vaccines
Time Frame: 6-8 weeks
Parental attitudes regarding vaccines will be assessed upon screening to determine the parental level of hesitancy regarding childhood vaccines. We will will use the same survey questions again immediately after the intervention and at the 2 month visit to measure change in parental attitude. We will also survey the control group at the 2 month check as well to compare attitude change without the intervention.
Secondary Outcomes
- Vaccination rates of control and interventional groups(6-8 weeks, 19 months)