Increasing Men's Engagement in Preventive Healthcare Through an Enhanced Cocoon Vaccination Strategy

NCT ID: NCT06437834

Last Updated: 2025-12-12

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

176 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-08-15

Study Completion Date

2025-09-30

Brief Summary

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The goal of this clinical trial is to understand if offering a high touch engagement with healthcare center catered to men and bedside vaccine access in a birthing center increases men's engagement in preventive healthcare. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does access to vaccinations and overall health education for men lead to increased uptake of vaccines? Does access to vaccinations and overall health education for men lead to increased engagement in overall healthcare of male identifying support persons.

Researchers will compare three arms (one that receives an offer of vaccines at bedside in the birthing clinic, one that receives an information flyer about the importance of preventive care in addition to the offer of vaccines and a third one that receives higher level of engagement from patient liaisons as well as the offer of vaccines at bedside) to see if there is a difference in vaccine uptake and engagement in healthcare.

Outcomes will be measured by aggregate number of men receiving vaccines weekly in each arm and aggregate number of men enrolling in a men's health care center in each arm. Men will also be invited to complete a survey and a portion will be invited to complete and interview.

Detailed Description

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The goal of this project is to understand whether the combination of vaccination access and connection to services tailored for men improves vaccination rates among men and engagement in healthcare. Additionally, this project aims to understand variations in effectiveness between low-touch and high-touch approaches. To achieve these goals, the project has two specific aims:

Aim 1: Assess the effectiveness of cocoon vaccination interventions on a continuum of minimum to high-touch in terms of vaccination completion and healthcare engagement. After refinement of the intervention materials and study materials based on engagement with community members, representatives of the priority population, interested parties including birthing parents, the initiative will roll out in three randomly timed clusters, one that includes bedside vaccinations, another that includes bedside vaccinations in addition to low-touch informational flyer, and a third that includes bedside vaccinations and high-touch connection to the UH Cutler Center for Men through the Joe Team. Vaccination completion will be assessed utilizing records from the Pharmacy department delivering the vaccinations. Health care engagement will be assessed utilizing records from the UH Cutler Center for Men on enrollment in the center. Male-identifying individuals will also be recruited and enrolled to complete a survey at baseline to assess healthcare engagement.

Aim 2: Examine the factors that impact uptake of vaccination and healthcare engagement after a cocoon vaccination intervention. Factors that impact intervention uptake will be assessed through the survey and semi-structured interviews with a subsample of survey participants. Additionally, contextual factors related to the implementation of the intervention, such as hours of operation for high touch connections/vaccine distribution will be assessed. By understanding the factors that impact intervention uptake, we will assess the barriers and facilitators of this strategy.

Hypothesis. This pilot study will examine whether implementing a cocoon vaccination strategy that provides access to vaccinations and overall health education for men leads to increased uptake of vaccines and engagement in overall healthcare of male identifying support persons. Additionally, it will assess the factors that impact intervention uptake. We anticipate that vaccination rates and engagement with healthcare will be highest among male visitors at the Ahuja Medical Center who receive the vaccination offer at bedside and the high-touch healthcare navigation information relative to those who are only offered offered bedside vaccines only.

Conditions

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Vaccines Preventive Medicine

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Vaccination Offer only

all male-identifying visitors in the birthing center will receive the offer of influenza and Tdap vaccinations at the bedside only.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Offer of Bedside Vaccines plus Information

All male-identifying visitors in the birthing center at the birthing center will receive an information sheet about vaccinations and preventive healthcare, and will be offered influenza and Tdap vaccinations at bedside in the birthing center.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Information Sheet

Intervention Type OTHER

Information sheet describing the importance of vaccines and preventive care as well as contact information for patient navigators.

Offer of Bedside Vaccines plus High-touch connection

All male-identifying visitors in the birthing center will receive the information sheet, and will be offered influenza and Tdap vaccinations at bedside in the birthing center, as well as a high-touch connection to healthcare navigation supports.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Information Sheet

Intervention Type OTHER

Information sheet describing the importance of vaccines and preventive care as well as contact information for patient navigators.

High-touch connect

Intervention Type OTHER

Engagement with a patient navigator.

Interventions

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Information Sheet

Information sheet describing the importance of vaccines and preventive care as well as contact information for patient navigators.

Intervention Type OTHER

High-touch connect

Engagement with a patient navigator.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

\- Adult Partner of birthing person at a birthing center who identifies as male-identifying

Exclusion Criteria

-Under the age of 18; does not identify as a man.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

Case Western Reserve University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Randy Vince, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Locations

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University Hospitals

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Informed Consent Form

View Document

Other Identifiers

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UM1TR004528

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

View Link

STUDY20240985

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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