Influenza 2020/2021

NCT ID: NCT04546854

Last Updated: 2020-09-25

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

200 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-09-21

Study Completion Date

2020-09-21

Brief Summary

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As part of the fight against COVID-19, the UK government has announced its most comprehensive flu campaign to date (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/most-comprehensive-flu-programme-in-uk-history-will-be-rolled-out-this-winter). This should not be surpising: every year NHS hospitals experience an overwhelming number of influenza cases, and COVID-19 increases this concern. As in previous years, the flu vaccine is free at the point of care for people 65 and over. New this year is that later in the season the vaccine will be made available free at the point of care for people 50 and over. However, if people refuse to take the vaccine this comprehensive program cannot benefit public health.

The degree to which vaccine hesitancy is expressed varies across characteristics of the vaccine considered and the time and place it is offered, and across characteristics of the person's perceptions of complacency, convenience, confidence, calculations, and communal responsibility, i.e. the "5Cs". Information campaigns can be used to influence all 5Cs, and public facing information is often a necessary component of public health campaigns that may also include structural components. Largely, information campaigns can be viewed as a type of educational intervention.

Educational interventions may fall short of what is needed to alter people's intentions to vaccinate where they focus on system 1 rational thinking processes and neglect system 2 automatic thinking processes. To be more effective, public health messages must be tailored to align with the "beliefs, attitudes, and motivations" of the very people they intend to influence.

Fact-led educational interventions to increase parents' intentions to vaccinate their children are particularly ineffective where more subtle content opposes the recipient's deep-seated values. In a different context, recycling behaviour, previous research demonstrated that messages aligned with people's deep-seated values (i.e. the moral foundations that underlie political ideologies) are more likely to promote desired behavioural intentions than unaligned messages.

The present research expands the scope of previous research in two ways. First, rather than investigating parental attitudes towards vaccination, the investigators will look at people's intentions to self-vaccinate. Second, the investigators will explore the effectiveness of messages aligned with the moral foundations that underlie individual's political ideologies on their intentions to be vaccinated.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Influenza Vaccine

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Participants Investigators

Study Groups

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Conservative - Binding Appeal

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Appeals

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Written text motivating participants to take up the seasonal influenza vaccination

Liberal - Individulizing Appeal

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Appeals

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Written text motivating participants to take up the seasonal influenza vaccination

Interventions

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Appeals

Written text motivating participants to take up the seasonal influenza vaccination

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Resident in England
* Age 50+ years old, inclusive

The age criteria is set at 50+ years old, because this is the age group currently being advised by Public Health England to seek the flu jab as soon as possible this season. (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/most-comprehensive-flu-programme-in-uk-history-will-be-rolled-out-this-winter).

Exclusion Criteria

* Not a resident in England
* Age less than 50 years old
Minimum Eligible Age

50 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Warwick

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Kelly Ann Schmidtke

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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University of Warwick

Coventry, , United Kingdom

Site Status

Countries

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United Kingdom

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Study Protocol

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Other Identifiers

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BSREC 167/19-20

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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