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Multi-Component Intervention for Vaccine Hesitancy

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Waitlist Available
Led By Jennifer Kraschnewski
Research Sponsored by Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial
Must have
Be older than 18 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up up to 1 year
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Study Summary

This trial will study how well educational materials about vaccines work in increasing the number of parents who vaccinate their middle school-aged children.

Eligible Conditions
  • Vaccine Hesitancy
  • Childhood Infectious Diseases

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~up to 1 year
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and up to 1 year for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary outcome measures
Intention by parents to vaccinate school-aged children, as measured by survey
Secondary outcome measures
Rates of recommended vaccination among school-aged children

Trial Design

2Treatment groups
Active Control
Group I: Usual CareActive Control1 Intervention
Educational emails about broad health topics to keep control group engaged
Group II: Multi-Component InterventionActive Control2 Interventions
(1) a community event to raise parental awareness of the importance of vaccination; (2) social marketing to target parents' attitudes and knowledge around vaccinations in the form of educational material

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCIndustry Sponsor
3,888 Previous Clinical Trials
5,059,787 Total Patients Enrolled
2 Trials studying Vaccine Hesitancy
80 Patients Enrolled for Vaccine Hesitancy
Milton S. Hershey Medical CenterLead Sponsor
494 Previous Clinical Trials
2,798,694 Total Patients Enrolled
Jennifer KraschnewskiPrincipal InvestigatorPenn State College of Medicine
1 Previous Clinical Trials
136 Total Patients Enrolled

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

Are participants still welcome to join the current clinical trial?

"Clinicaltrials.gov indicates that this trial, which was originally posted on February 14th 2019, is not actively seeking participants at the moment. Nonetheless, there are 780 other trials in progress currently searching for volunteers."

Answered by AI
~24 spots leftby Apr 2025