NCT01873040

Vaccine Social Media Randomized Intervention Trial

Randomized Intervention Trial to Evaluate a Vaccine Social Media Website

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,675 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kaiser Permanente · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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: 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.

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.

Conditions

• Communicable Diseases

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.
BEHAVIORAL	Vaccine Information Pages	Participants will receive access to the study vaccine website information pages.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-08-01
• Primary completion: 2016-11-01
• Completion: 2016-11-01
• First posted: 2013-06-07
• Last updated: 2017-10-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States