Influenza vaccination in care home staff Respiratory Influenza, need for immunization against influenza
Conditions
Interventions
10 homes will be selected from all eligible expressions of interest in order to maximise variation in important characteristics (e.g. care home size
type of pharmacy
with or without nursing). These homes will then be randomised equally across the 5 trial arms, 4 usual care arms, and 1 intervention arm.
Usual Care
Four variations of
financial incentives for managers.
The intervention duration is November 2021 to February 2022, follow-up data collection (for all arms) will last 1 month after the intervention ends.
Sponsors
University of East Anglia
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Care homes: 1. Long stay for older residents or dementia registration 2. Self-reported staff vaccination rate <40% (verified with DHSC Capacity Tracker) 3. Must be signed up to the DHSC Capacity Tracker and willing to provide weekly updates on flu vaccine status of staff and residents
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Care homes with fewer than 10 staff members
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Proportion of the total number of staff employed at any point throughout a flu season (of all directly contracted staff such as care staff, cleaners, cooks, administrative staff, and all agency staff) who receive a flu vaccine measured using vaccination and staffing data provided by care homes weekly between November 2021 and March 2022 | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Recruitment outcomes: 1. Proportion of care homes willing to participate and time taken to recruit measured using recruitment logs during the recruitment period 2. Proportion of recruited care homes completing the site profile questionnaire at the start and end of the trial measured using site profile questionnaire responses at 4 months 3. Proportion of staff in intervention homes who consented to complete Mechanisms of Action Questionnaire (MAQ) measured using recruitment logs at 4 months Data Collection outcomes: 1. Number of missing variables in home-reported data at the individual staff level and care home level measured using home-reported data at 4 months 2. Number of missing data values for at the individual staff level and care home level data in variables reported by homes measured using home-reported data at 4 months 3. Proportion of MAQ completed (by staff in intervention homes only) measured using MAQ responses at 4 months 4. Number of missing variables and data values for intervention delivery resource use measured using intervention delivery resource use responses at 4 months 5. Staff vaccination reporting measured using Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) reported vaccination data at 4 months Intervention implementation outcomes: 1. Number of times videos played (embedded in videos) and duration that video played measured using website data recorded continuously between 0 and 3 months (during intervention delivery) 2. Number of posters displayed and locations measured using ethnographic between 0 and 3 months 3. Number of pharmacy visits to homes measured using a pharmacist log submitted at 4 months 4. Length and time of pharmacy visits to home measured using a pharmacist log submitted at 4 months 5. Numbe | — |
Countries
England, United Kingdom
Contacts
Public ContactErika Sims
Outcome results
None listed