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Not Yet RecruitingNCT07102472

An Experiment Comparing Public Reactions to the Labels "Community Immunity" Versus "Herd Immunity".

Community Immunity Versus Herd Immunity

Status: Not Yet Recruiting
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional
Enrollment: 350 (estimated)

Sponsor: Laval University · Academic / Other
Sex: All
Age: 18 Years
Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Participants are shown a scenario consisting of static images from a previous study ("herdimm") showing a visualization of how herd immunity works. Participants are randomized to see the text with the term "herd immunity" or "community immunity."

Conditions

Attitudes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Using the term "community immunity" instead of "herd immunity"	In the intervention arm, participants are shown the less traditional term "community immunity" in place of the more traditional "herd immunity"
BEHAVIORAL	Herd immunity	Using the traditional term "herd immunity"

Timeline

Start date: 2025-07-22
Primary completion: 2025-08-31
Completion: 2025-08-31
First posted: 2025-08-03
Last updated: 2025-08-03

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT07102472. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.