None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
In this study we aim to test a tool that has been designed for incentivising and educating vaccination among the school age population. The primary outcome will measure return rates of consent forms of those incentivised to do so with the collection of the vaccine card game ‘Vaxcards’. Secondary outcome measures will assess the effectiveness for the tool to increase knowledge and move attitudes towards behaviour change among school age vaccine recipients and their parents. We hypothesise that consent form return rates for community school vaccination will increase to those offered a pack of vaxcards. We also hypothesized that children and parents who receive a pack of vaxcards will show improved knowledge, attitudes and behaviors towards vaccination
Interventions
The school children will already be undertaking the vaccination program as part of their year 7 program at their school and consent will not be sort from them to participate in the scheduled vaccination program. De-identified, routinely collected information about returned consent forms will be provided to the investigators by Casey Council for the schools involved in the trial.
The experimental group will be provided a hand out with the consent form for vaccination that will serve the purpose
The school children will already be undertaking the vaccination program as part of their year 7 program at their school and consent will not be sort from them to participate in the scheduled vaccination program. De-identified, routinely collected information about returned consent forms will be provided to the investigators by Casey Council for the schools involved in the trial. The experimental group will be provided a hand out with the consent form for vaccination that will serve the purpose of the explanatory statement and consent to receive the intervention (a pack of Vaxcards) or not in a tick box to be returned with the consent forms for their routine vaccination. The pack of vaxcards contains 10 character cards that represent the disease vaccinated against in the immunization schedule and information about these diseases. The intervention will be delivered once and are intended to be kept by participants and are provided with instructions on how to play the game but not provided indications of use, they may play with the cards as they wish. There are no strategies implemented to assess/monitor adherence to the intervention. Schools participating in the vaccination program will email and mail parents and students with instructions for completing survey with explanatory statement and consent box hosted by Qualtrix
Sponsors
Monash University department of general practice
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Investigator)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
11 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
District of Casey council school vaccination program for year 7 students and parents of students.
Exclusion criteria
none
Outcome results
None listed