The goal of this intervention study is to learn if giving children influenza vaccinations in early childhood education facilities (i.e., daycare) will increase vaccination coverage compared to giving vaccinations only at healthcare. The main question it aims to answer is: • Does offering children nasal influenza vaccine in daycare result in higher proportion of children getting influenza vaccine. Researchers will compare daycare setting and healthcare setting as the location of giving influenza vaccines to children to see if more children will get vaccinated if they have an opportunity to receive nasal influenza vaccine at daycare. Participants in the intervention group will: • Have the opportunity to receive influenza vaccine in the daycare or in the healthcare Participants in the comparison group will: • Have the opportunity to receive influenza vaccine in the healthcare only
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
6,000
The intervention is the possibility to get influenza vaccine in the daycare, in comparison to routine practice of getting influenza vaccine in a healthcare setting.
University of Turku
Turku, Finland
RECRUITINGInfluenza vaccination coverage
Study child receiving any influenza vaccine
Time frame: From enrollment to the end of seasonal influenza vaccinations about 3 to 10 weeks later.
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