Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Professionals
Primary Purpose
Influenza
Status
Completed
Phase
Not Applicable
Locations
United States
Study Type
Interventional
Intervention
influenza vaccine, reminders letters, raffle prize
Sponsored by
About this trial
This is an interventional educational/counseling/training trial for Influenza focused on measuring influenza vaccine, influenza immunization, reminder letters, raffle prize
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Hospital employees, staff physicians, residents, rn's, lpn's
Exclusion Criteria:
- non patient care hospital employees
Sites / Locations
- Cleveland Clinic
Outcomes
Primary Outcome Measures
Proportion of employees receiving vaccination and participating in the raffle across groups.
Secondary Outcome Measures
Full Information
NCT ID
NCT00404664
First Posted
November 28, 2006
Last Updated
November 28, 2006
Sponsor
The Cleveland Clinic
1. Study Identification
Unique Protocol Identification Number
NCT00404664
Brief Title
Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Professionals
Official Title
A Novel Approach To Improve Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Professionals: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial
Study Type
Interventional
2. Study Status
Record Verification Date
November 2006
Overall Recruitment Status
Completed
Study Start Date
September 2004 (undefined)
Primary Completion Date
undefined (undefined)
Study Completion Date
April 2005 (undefined)
3. Sponsor/Collaborators
Name of the Sponsor
The Cleveland Clinic
4. Oversight
5. Study Description
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.
6. Conditions and Keywords
Primary Disease or Condition Being Studied in the Trial, or the Focus of the Study
Influenza
Keywords
influenza vaccine, influenza immunization, reminder letters, raffle prize
7. Study Design
Primary Purpose
Educational/Counseling/Training
Study Phase
Not Applicable
Interventional Study Model
Single Group Assignment
Masking
Single
Allocation
Randomized
Enrollment
800 (false)
8. Arms, Groups, and Interventions
Intervention Type
Behavioral
Intervention Name(s)
influenza vaccine, reminders letters, raffle prize
Primary Outcome Measure Information:
Title
Proportion of employees receiving vaccination and participating in the raffle across groups.
10. Eligibility
Sex
All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
Hospital employees, staff physicians, residents, rn's, lpn's
Exclusion Criteria:
non patient care hospital employees
Overall Study Officials:
First Name & Middle Initial & Last Name & Degree
Michael L Macknin, M.D.
Organizational Affiliation
The Cleveland Clinic
Official's Role
Study Director
Facility Information:
Facility Name
Cleveland Clinic
City
Cleveland
State/Province
Ohio
ZIP/Postal Code
44195
Country
United States
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