Making Decisions About the Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine

Measles Clinical Trial

Official title:

Developing a Computer-based Intervention That Provides Individually-tailored Educational Information for MMR Vaccine-hesitant Parents

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01369394
• Other study ID #: 186564
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: June 7, 2011
• Last updated: December 8, 2014
• Start date: June 2011
• Est. completion date: July 2012

Study information

• Verified date: December 2014
• Source: University of Michigan
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this study is to determine whether a computer-based intervention that delivers individually-tailored educational messages about the MMR vaccine increases MMR vaccine-hesitant parents' intentions to have their children vaccinated.

Description:

This will be a randomized controlled intervention trial for MMR vaccine-hesitant parents of children ages six years and younger who have not yet received the MMR vaccine. Parents will complete a three-item measure that assesses their baseline intentions for having their children vaccinated with MMR. Participants will then fill out a short, computer-based survey that assesses demographic factors, prior experience with MMR, and views about a variety of potential barriers to MMR vaccination. Following the survey, the intervention group (40 parents) will view a series of tailored educational messages resembling web pages that uses their survey data to address at an individual level their specific concerns about the MMR vaccine. The control group (40 parents) will view a series of generic educational messages resembling web pages that is similar in appearance to the intervention, but contains only untailored information about the vaccine. After navigating through these educational messages, MMR vaccination intention will be reassessed using the same three-item measure as for the baseline assessment of vaccination intention. The vaccine administration records of the children of these parents will be accessed after parents' participation in the study to assess whether the MMR vaccine was provided to the child.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 79
• Est. completion date: July 2012
• Est. primary completion date: June 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Parent is greater than or equal to 18 years of age

• Parent has a child 6 years of age or younger

• When asked to describe how he/she feels about getting child vaccinated against MMR, parent responds "I don't want to get my child vaccinated" or "I'm unsure if I want my child to get vaccinated"

Exclusion Criteria:

• Cannot read/speak English

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Measles
• MMR Vaccination
• Mumps
• Rubella

Intervention

Other:
• Behavioral: Computer-based tailoring system
Both the intervention and control groups will use a computer-based tailoring system to respond to survey questions. The computer-based tailoring system will generate educational messages based on participants' responses to survey questions. The intervention group will receive tailored educational messages, whereas the control group will receive generic educational messages. The tailored and generic educational messages will be presented as to look like web pages. However, the messages will only exist on the study computer, and will not be linked to any "live" server or website.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	UMHS Outpatient Pediatrics	Ann Arbor	Michigan

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Michigan

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Parent's intention to vaccinate child against MMR	Parent will rate his/her intention to have child vaccinated against MMR using a Likert scale before and after the intervention.	Date of intervention (one day)	No
Secondary	Use of the intervention	We will assess the number of pages viewed and time spend per page for each participant viewing the intervention.	At the time of intervention participation	No