NCT05225064

Increasing COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake in Developing Countries (Bihar)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 114,512 (actual)
• Sponsor: Yale University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Working with governments in Bihar, India, we will evaluate a number of mechanisms to increase vaccine uptake. These include household vaccination visits instead of community vaccination clinic.monetary and non-monetary incentives, and concurrent mask promotion. This ClinicalTrials entry contains results only for the study in Bihar.

Detailed description

The goal of the study is to identify strategies that best promote and support COVID vaccine uptake in developing countries, we propose to test a range of scalable social and behavioural interventions. This could help policy makers design and employ interventions that are effective. This is especially valuable in resource constrained contexts where funds and institutional resources can be diverted towards interventions that have proven to work. In Bihar the intervention will be village-level social mobilization involving community promotion, including in-person vaccine reinforcement, and household-level social mobilization. Some treatment villages will receive household- level interventions with varying intensity (different proportion of households will be visited). There will also an accompanying mask distribution campaign during household visits where the importance of mask-wearing as a complement to vaccine use will be explained. This ClinicalTrials entry contains results only for the study in Bihar.

Conditions

• Vaccination Refusal

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Incentives to be vaccinated	Individuals will be provided with a guaranteed cash payment, entry into a cash lottery, or guaranteed gift of food if they are vaccinated
DEVICE	Mask	Individuals are given cloth masks
BEHAVIORAL	Encouragement to wear a mask	Individuals who are not wearing masks over their mouth and nose are stopped in public places and encouraged to wear a mask
BEHAVIORAL	Vaccination made more convenient	Vaccines are conducted at the household-level rather than the village-level
BEHAVIORAL	Social mobilization campaign to be vaccinated	Village-level social mobilization campaign to be vaccinated

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-19
• Primary completion: 2022-04-27
• Completion: 2022-04-27
• First posted: 2022-02-04
• Last updated: 2022-06-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: India