Screening for Hesitancy to Optimize Talk

Seattle Children's Hospital562 enrolled

Overview

The overall goal of this project is to determine whether integrating a novel parent-report measure of vaccine hesitancy into pediatric primary care is effective in improving acceptance of childhood vaccines among vaccine-hesitant parents.

The primary goal of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of an innovative intervention designed to address these barriers-the Screening for Hesitancy to Optimize Talk (SHOT) intervention-in improving provider-parent vaccine discussions and increasing vaccine acceptance. The SHOT intervention involves administering a validated parent-report measure to parents and communicating their score and item-specific responses to their child's provider before their child's 2 and 6 month health supervision visits. The survey contains 15 questions regarding Health Belief Model concepts that influence parent vaccination behavior and has been shown to predict under-immunization. Our specific aims are to (1) evaluate the impact of the SHOT intervention on a child's immunization status using a matched-pair, cluster randomized controlled trial design; (2) assess how parents' ratings of their vaccine discussions with their child's provider change as a function of the SHOT intervention; and (3) compare pre- and post-study perceptions of barriers to quality vaccine discussions with parents between providers in the SHOT and control arm.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

TRIPLE

Enrollment

562

Conditions

Preventive Health Services

Interventions

Intervention SurveyBEHAVIORAL

Placebo SurveyBEHAVIORAL

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 1 DayHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: Parents: Parents must be English speaking, ≥18 years old, have a newborn singleton infant ≤2 months, born at ≥35 weeks gestation who is receiving pediatric care at an enrolled Kaiser Permanente or Allegro Pediatrics clinic, and be vaccine hesitant (defined as positive screening score on eligibility survey). Newborns: Newborns 0 - 2 months old whose parents enroll in the study will be invited to participate. Providers: All pediatric and family practice providers at Kaiser Permanente and Allegro Pediatrics primary clinics within a 5 county region in western Washington (Snohomish, King, Pierce, Thurston, and Kitsap Counties) will be eligible to participate. Exclusion Criteria: Parents/Children: Parents who are not 18 years or older, require language interpretation for medical care, have an infant born \<35 weeks gestation, are not vaccine hesitant or will not be taking their child to a participating clinic for health supervision visits will be excluded. Providers: Clinics and providers outside the 5 county region in western Washington (Snohomish, King, Pierce, Thurston, and Kitsap) will be excluded.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Child's Mean Percent Days Under-immunized

Mean percent days under-immunized among children of parents who received (vs. did not receive) the intervention

Time frame: Child's immunization status at 8 months of age

Secondary Outcomes

Number of Parents With a Highly Rated Visit Experience

Score on a 15-item parent-completed visit experience survey (minimum score 15; maximum score 105, with higher scores suggesting a higher rated visit experience)

Time frame: 24-48 hours after the 6 month health supervision visit

Provider Perceptions of Barriers to the Vaccine Discussion

Provider-reported ratings of the significance of 3 barriers to the vaccine discussion: a) not having enough time to discuss parental vaccine concerns, b) not realizing until late in the visit that a parent had vaccine concerns, and c) not understanding a parent's specific vaccine concerns to be barriers pre- and post-intervention

Time frame: Change post-intervention from pre-intervention

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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