Adolescent Vaccination Reminder Study

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

3783 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2012-10-31

Study Completion Date

2014-12-31

Brief Summary

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This protocol describes a study about vaccination uptake among adolescents. The purpose of the study is to determine whether parents who receive email reminders will be more likely to obtain Tdap (tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis), HPV (human papilloma virus), meningococcal, and influenza vaccines for their adolescent children than parents who do not receive email reminders.

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Detailed Description

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Adolescents are a reservoir population for a variety of vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs). Despite this, adolescent vaccination rates lag substantially behind national goals of 80% coverage for adolescent vaccines set forth by Healthy People 2020. This has been particularly the case for the vaccines most recently recommended for adolescents, such as the HPV (human papilloma virus) and seasonal influenza (flu) vaccines; national coverage levels in 2010 for HPV were 32% (for series completion among females only) and 35% for flu vaccine. Uptake levels for the two other adolescent-targeted vaccines, Tdap and meningococcal conjugate (MCV4) vaccines are currently at 69% and 63%, respectively.

A major barrier to increased adolescent vaccination levels is the lack of parental and provider recognition that an adolescent is due for vaccine doses. For providers, there are the dual challenges of getting adolescents to come in for annual preventive care visits and also minimizing "missed opportunities" for vaccination (i.e. clinical interactions with a patient where a needed vaccine could have been provided but was not). Reminder/recall systems are one mechanism to help address both of these challenges for providers while also informing parents about the need for adolescent vaccines.

Conditions

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Adolescent Vaccination Status

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Vaccination Email Reminder

This group of parents in the study will receive email notifications about due/overdue vaccines for their adolescents. Vaccination records will be reviewed to identify adolescent patients in both practices who are newly eligible for a vaccine and/or overdue for a vaccine at the start of every other month. Email notifications will then be sent to the parents of these children.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Email Notification

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

This study will use a targeted email reminder/recall intervention that addresses specific aspects of adolescent under-immunization.

Usual Care

This group of parents in the study will not receive email notifications about due/overdue vaccines for their adolescents.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Email Notification

This study will use a targeted email reminder/recall intervention that addresses specific aspects of adolescent under-immunization.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Parents of adolescents (Ages 11-18) have children who attend one of 4 participating pediatric practices,
* Parents are able to read and converse in English,
* Parents have an active email address that is associated with their child's medical record,
* Parents have an adolescent whose medical record can be matched with their MCIR record.

Exclusion Criteria

* Parent age \<18 years,
* Parents have an invalid or non-working parent email address,
* Parents have opted out of email communication,
* Prisoners,
* Decisionally challenged participants.

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes