NCT03266211

Antitetanus Vaccination for People Older Than 65 Years.

Antitetanus Vaccination for People Older Than 65 Years in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France) Region Depending on the Demographic and Medical Practice of Their Medical Practitioner.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 261 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In the last ten years, more than one hundred generalized tetanus cases were declared in France. Most of them were affecting people older than 70 years with an important mortality (around 28%). It is know that the only way to protect ourselves from this disease is the vaccination. In France tetanus vaccination is mandatory since 1940. Nowaday none study looked specifically for the vaccination of people older than 65 years. The hypothesis is: there is a difference in the tetanus vaccination coverage for people older than 65 years depending on the demographic and medical practice of their general practitioner.

Conditions

• Tetanus

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Questionnaire Patients	Patient will have to answer a quiz which is about their vaccination against tetanus.
OTHER	Questionnaire General practitioner	General practitioner will have to answer a quiz which is about their medical practice concerning vaccination against tetanus.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-11-09
• Primary completion: 2017-12-23
• Completion: 2017-12-23
• First posted: 2017-08-30
• Last updated: 2018-06-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France