Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Professionals - Full Text View

Sponsored by:	The Cleveland Clinic
Information provided by:	The Cleveland Clinic
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00404664

Purpose

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.

Condition	Intervention
Influenza	Behavioral: influenza vaccine, reminders letters, raffle prize

MedlinePlus related topics: Flu

Drug Information available for: Influenza Vaccines Fluvirin

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Educational/Counseling/Training, Randomized, Single Blind, Placebo Control, Single Group Assignment, Efficacy Study
Official Title:	A Novel Approach To Improve Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Professionals: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial

Further study details as provided by The Cleveland Clinic:

Primary Outcome Measures:

Proportion of employees receiving vaccination and participating in the raffle across groups.

Estimated Enrollment:	800
Study Start Date:	September 2004
Estimated Study Completion Date:	April 2005

Detailed Description:

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.

Eligibility

Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	Yes

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

non patient care hospital employees

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00404664

Locations

United States, Ohio
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195

Sponsors and Collaborators

The Cleveland Clinic

Investigators

Study Director:

Michael L Macknin, M.D.

Cleveland Clinic

More Information

Study ID Numbers:	IRB 7370
Study First Received:	November 28, 2006
Last Updated:	November 28, 2006
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00404664
Health Authority:	United States: Institutional Review Board

Keywords provided by The Cleveland Clinic:

influenza vaccine
influenza immunization
reminder letters
raffle prize

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Virus Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Respiratory Tract Infections
Influenza, Human
Orthomyxoviridae Infections

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

RNA Virus Infections

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on January 14, 2009