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NCT Number: NCT01873040

Vaccine Social Media Randomized Intervention Trial

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:

1. 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. 2. 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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Key information

Conditions

Communicable Diseases Disease Attributes Infections Pathologic Processes Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Age range

18 year–60 year

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research

Denver, Colorado, 80231, United States

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Women >20 weeks Pregnant (including parents of children up to 1 year of age).
  • >18 years of age

Exclusion criteria

  • Non english speak
  • Do not intend to use Kaiser insurance for the child

Treatment and study plan

Social Media plus information pages

Behavioral

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.

Vaccine Information Pages

Behavioral

Participants will receive access to the study vaccine website information pages.

Primary outcomes

  1. Days under-immunized

    Time frame: 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 outcomes

  1. Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs about immunizations

    Time frame: 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.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Kaiser Permanente

Other

Collaborators

  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Registry information

Official study title

Randomized Intervention Trial to Evaluate a Vaccine Social Media Website

Acronym: VSMRCT

Important dates

Study start
2013
Primary completion
2016
Study completion
2016
First posted
Jun 7, 2013
Registry last updated
Oct 18, 2017

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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