Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Professionals

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

800 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2004-09-30

Study Completion Date

2005-04-30

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study was to see if reminder letters and a large raffle prize would encourage health care workers to receive influenza vaccinations.

Detailed Description

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Eight hundred employees of an urban tertiary care hospital, 200 each from the following four categories: professional staff, resident physicians, registered nurses, and licensed practical nurses comprised the study group. Subjects were randomly assigned to receive: 1) no intervention, 2) a reminder letter for flu vaccine, 3) a raffle ticket to win a free Caribbean vacation with flu vaccine administration, or 4) both the reminder letter and raffle ticket. We compared the proportion of employees receiving vaccination and participating in the raffle across groups.

Conditions

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Influenza

Keywords

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influenza vaccine influenza immunization reminder letters raffle prize

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

ECT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Interventions

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influenza vaccine, reminders letters, raffle prize

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Hospital employees, staff physicians, residents, rn's, lpn's

Exclusion Criteria

* non patient care hospital employees

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Principal Investigators

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Michael L Macknin, M.D.

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

The Cleveland Clinic

Locations

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Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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IRB 7370

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id