Influenza
Conditions
Keywords
influenza vaccine, influenza immunization, reminder letters, raffle prize
Brief summary
The purpose of this study was to see if reminder letters and a large raffle prize would encourage health care workers to receive influenza vaccinations.
Detailed description
Eight hundred employees of an urban tertiary care hospital, 200 each from the following four categories: professional staff, resident physicians, registered nurses, and licensed practical nurses comprised the study group. Subjects were randomly assigned to receive: 1) no intervention, 2) a reminder letter for flu vaccine, 3) a raffle ticket to win a free Caribbean vacation with flu vaccine administration, or 4) both the reminder letter and raffle ticket. We compared the proportion of employees receiving vaccination and participating in the raffle across groups.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALinfluenza vaccine, reminders letters, raffle prize
Sponsors
The Cleveland Clinic
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
ECT
Masking
SINGLE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Hospital employees, staff physicians, residents, rn's, lpn's
Exclusion criteria
* non patient care hospital employees
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Proportion of employees receiving vaccination and participating in the raffle across groups. | — |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed