None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
In this statewide 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 the proportion of vaccination rates 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. We will be testing several arms of the intervention to see the most effective means of delivery and timing of the intervention.
Interventions
The school children will already be undertaking the vaccination program as part of their year 7 program at their school and consent for vaccination is done separately by the Department of Health and Human Services. For this study, we will offer parents the chance to return the vaxcards game intervention if they do not wish for their children to participate. De-identified, routinely collected information about returned consent forms will be provided to the investigators by Casey Council for the s
The school children will already be undertaking the vaccination program as part of their year 7 program at their school and consent for vaccination is done separately by the Department of Health and Human Services. For this study, we will offer parents the chance to return the vaxcards game intervention if they do not wish for their children to participate. 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. All students in the normal vaccination program are provided the consent form for community vaccination by the council for content to vaccinate. The experimental group will also be provided a 1 page handout about receiving a game of vaxcards when their consent form is returned. In term 1 the students who return their consent form will be provided a pack of the vaccination card game Vaxcards. The return rate of consent forms will form the primary outcome measure. There will be slight variations in the timing of the intervention among sub groups in the experimental group. 1. receiving the starter pack of vaxcards at the time of the council consent form, school posters, teachers provided lesson plans, HPV card at time of vaccination. -starter pack contains: instructions on how to play the game, names and characters of 11 diseases (hepatitis B, measles, meningococcal, pneumococcal, rotavirus, rubella, mumps, varicella, dipthteria, pertussis, tetanus and HPV). Cards contain information on the disease symptoms, vector, method of infection eg droplet/blood, incidence. worldwide mortality. 2. receiving the starter pack of vaxcards at the time of the council consent form, school posters, teachers provided lesson plans, HPV card at time of vaccination, class sets of full packs. -full pack contains all disease character cards (influenza, measles, meningococcal, mumps, pertussis, rubella, tetanus, hpv, dengue, HIV, hookworm, leishmaniasis, malaria, schistosomiasis, dipthteria, hepatitis B, chagas, smallpox, polio, cooler, typhoid, hepatitis A, Japanese encephalitis, tuberculosis, rabies, yellow fever, rotavirus, varicella.) 3. receiving the random pack of vaxcards at the time of the council consent form, school posters, teachers provided lesson plans, class sets of full packs. -random packs will contain 7 random characters above + always contain year 7 vaccine specific cards HPV, dipthteria, tetanus, pertussis. 4. receiving the full pack of vaxcards at the time of the council consent handout, school posters, teachers provided lesson plans. For the teacher-provided lesson plans: - modules/topics covered during the intervention lessons include: herd immunity, why are people vaccine hesitant, risk and benefit of vaccines, story of smallpox eradication, how vaccines work, differences between pathogens, how disease spreads, how vaccines are made. - the frequency and duration of intervention lessons will be decided by the teacher but modules are provided include 3-4 x 50minute lessons - teachers providing these lessons will be provided videos and material links for reading/upskilling prior to class delivery. After Vaccination programs are complete, both experimental and control group students and parents will be asked to complete the attached knowledge, attitudes and behaviours survey delivered through an email link or by mail by the school to the Qualtrics platform where they will be provided information and consent to the survey. This will form the secondary outcome measurement. 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 parents and students with instructions for completing survey with explanatory statement and consent box hosted by Qualtrix
Sponsors
Monash University
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
State of Victoria school vaccination program for year 7 students and parents of students.
Exclusion criteria
none
Outcome results
None listed