To measure the effectiveness of influenza vaccination in school children by comparing, between target(i.e., children are offered FluMist) and control (i.e., children are not offered FluMist) school families.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
3,022
0.5 ml of vaccine intranasally (0.25 ml in each nostril) which contains approximately 107 TCID50 of each type
Division of General Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington, United States
To compare the families of children in the target schools with families of children in the control schools with respect to workdays lost by adults and school days lost by children.
Time frame: 7 days after each vaccination
Absenteeism - To compare the families of children in the target schools to those in the control schools with respect to the overall increase in absenteeism during the influenza outbreak, using aggregated (summary) absentee rates.
Time frame: between outbreak and non-outbreak weeks
Herd Community - To compare unvaccinated children in the target schools to the children in the control schools with respect to changes in absentee rates between outbreak weeks and non-outbreak weeks.
Time frame: between outbreak and non-outbreak weeks
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