NCT03854734

Healthy, Immunized Communities Study

A Randomized Study to Determine the Efficacy of a Multi-tiered Community- and School-based Approach to Enhance School-aged Children's Recommended Vaccinations.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 148 (actual)
• Sponsor: Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This project aims to understand how improving vaccine education and awareness can impact the number of parents who vaccinate, or intend to vaccine, their middle school-aged children with age-appropriate vaccines, including human papillomavirus (HPV), meningitis (MCV) and tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (TDap).

Detailed description

Vaccines are considered one of the greatest public health successes. Unfortunately, an increasing rate of parental resistance in recent years has led to a reemergence of vaccine-preventable diseases. This project seeks to determine the effect of a multi-tiered school and community-based approach to improving rates of parental intent to vaccinate for middle school-aged vaccinations including Human Papillomavirus (HPV), meningitis (MCV) and Tetanus, Diphtheria, Pertussis (TDap). By randomizing participating schools, parents receiving the intervention participated in (1) a community-based event to raise parental awareness of the importance of vaccination and (2) a social marketing campaign targeting parents' attitudes and knowledge around vaccinations. The Investigators hypothesized that participation in this study would increase parental intention to vaccinate. In addition, this study intended to improve rates of recommended vaccination among middle school-aged children, as measured through vaccine uptake information required for annual entry into Pennsylvania public schools. The Penn State team brings a breadth of experience in pediatrics, community-engaged research, adolescent health, and engagement with schools.

Conditions

• Vaccine Hesitancy
• Communicable Diseases in Children

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Community Event	Formative focus group data was used to design an educational community event to improve information share and vaccine education/knowledge.
BEHAVIORAL	Educational Material	Formative focus group data was used to design educational messaging to be electronically distributed to intervention participants

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-02-14
• Primary completion: 2020-02-28
• Completion: 2023-02-09
• First posted: 2019-02-26
• Last updated: 2024-07-12
• Results posted: 2024-07-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States