The Maternal Pertussis Study: best practice for the communication of pertussis (whooping cough) booster vaccine recommendations to new mothers.

The influence of baseline attitudes, modifiable factors and health message framing on whooping cough booster vaccine uptake among new mothers on the postnatal ward in a public hospital.

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12613000893707

Acronym

Nil

Enrollment

1080

Registered

2013-08-12

Start date

2010-11-01

Completion date

2012-07-30

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

The cocooning strategy, which was implemented in Australia in 2009, can have a strong protective effect (indirect) against pertussis in infants. To achieve high maternal coverage, understanding maternal attitudes and other potentially influential factors is important. In this study, we examined the influence of baseline attitudes, modifiable factors and health message framing on pertussis booster vaccine uptake among postpartum women in the public hospital setting.

Interventions

Health-message framing: The tri-fold, coloured A4 pamphlet was written either in a gain or loss frame, indicating either what mothers gain from the cocooning strategy or what mothers would lose by not receiving the pertussis booster vaccine (for adults). The intervention was administered by the research nurse once the baseline questionnaire was completed. The interventions ( gain or loss pamphlet) were allocated to participants using sequential block allocation by week.

Study design

Allocation

Non-randomised trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Prevention

Masking

Open (masking not used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

Postpartum women not up to date with pertussis booster recommendations ( dTpa <10 years)

Exclusion criteria

Requires an interpreter. Unable to given written informed consent.

Outcome results