NCT03428776

Timeliness of Immunization and Compliance Assessment Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,065 (actual)
• Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 24 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Although coverage for primary childhood immunizations has improved, a significant proportion of young children and pregnant women living in low-resource settings remain inadequately immunized. While young children receive some primary vaccines, many are never fully vaccinated. Progressive decline in immunizations are in large part attributable to poor follow-up and compliance. Major challenges include maintaining immunization records linked to positive identification of the individual child, incentivizing follow-up and return immunizations and efficiently identifying and targeting non-compliant subjects. Mobile-phone costs have decreased dramatically in the developing world with rapid proliferation of web and mobile-phone connectivity. Novel approaches that integrate these modern technologies with existing resources in low and middle income countries can cost-effectively address these challenges. In this proposal, investigators will evaluate a novel software platform, utilizing biometric identification and of subjects, paired with intelligent and subject-aware, mobile-phone reminders and compliance-linked incentives to improve uptake and coverage of primary vaccinations in young children.

Detailed description

A cloud-based, biometric-linked vaccination record, mobile-phone reminder and compliance-linked incentive software platform to provide robust and universal access of vaccinations. The investigators will implement this platform in a low-resource settings with the following features: a) Cloud-based for robust and universal access. b) Biometric-linked for positive identification. c) Digital storage and reporting for transparent view of program operations. d) Global Positioning System (GPS)-linked, allowing rapid assessment of vaccination status of communities. e) Increasing vaccination uptake and coverage by intelligent and subject-aware automated reminders and compliance-linked incentives.

Conditions

• Vaccinations

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Standard Compliance-linked incentives	Standard mobile-phone reminders and compliance-linked incentives Electronic immunization records on cloud-based software platform and use of biometric identification
BEHAVIORAL	Intelligent Compliance-linked incentives	Intelligent mobile-phone reminders and compliance-linked incentives Electronic immunization records on cloud-based software platform and use of biometric identification
OTHER	Record keeping	Electronic immunization records on cloud-based software platform and use of biometric identification

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-25
• Primary completion: 2019-09-25
• Completion: 2019-09-25
• First posted: 2018-02-12
• Last updated: 2019-09-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: India