Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Professionals - Tabular View

Tracking Information

First Received Date ^ICMJE

November 28, 2006

Last Updated Date

November 28, 2006

Start Date ^ICMJE

September 2004

Primary Completion Date

Current Primary Outcome Measures ^ICMJE

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

Original Primary Outcome Measures ^ICMJE

Same as current

Change History

No Changes Posted

Current Secondary Outcome Measures ^ICMJE

Original Secondary Outcome Measures ^ICMJE

Descriptive Information

Brief Title ^ICMJE

Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Professionals

Official Title ^ICMJE

A Novel Approach To Improve Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Professionals: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial

Brief Summary

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.

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.

Study Phase

Study Type ^ICMJE

Interventional

Study Design ^ICMJE

Educational/Counseling/Training, Randomized, Single Blind, Placebo Control, Single Group Assignment, Efficacy Study

Condition ^ICMJE

Influenza

Intervention ^ICMJE

Behavioral: influenza vaccine, reminders letters, raffle prize

Study Arms / Comparison Groups

Publications *

* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by National Clinical Trials Identifier (NCT ID) in Medline.

Recruitment Information

Recruitment Status ^ICMJE

Completed

Enrollment ^ICMJE

800

Completion Date

April 2005

Primary Completion Date

Eligibility Criteria ^ICMJE

Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

non patient care hospital employees

Gender

Both

Ages

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Contacts ^ICMJE

Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects

Location Countries ^ICMJE

United States

Administrative Information

NCT ID ^ICMJE

NCT00404664

Responsible Party

Study ID Numbers ^ICMJE

IRB 7370

Study Sponsor ^ICMJE

The Cleveland Clinic

Collaborators ^ICMJE

Investigators ^ICMJE

Study Director:

Michael L Macknin, M.D.

Cleveland Clinic

Information Provided By

The Cleveland Clinic

Verification Date

November 2006

^ICMJE Data element required by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and the World Health Organization ICTRP