Influenza, Human
Conditions
Brief summary
This project is a partnership between Emmi Solutions, a private company that delivers health promotion messages to employees of client organizations, and the University of Michigan and affiliated academic investigators. In particular, Emmi sends out pre-recorded and interactive telephone calls on behalf of their healthcare clients to promote influenza vaccination each Fall. The collaboration will design various scripts (based on established risk communication, behavior change, and behavioral economic principles) to be pre-recorded and sent out on these calls on a randomized basis (with approval by client organizations), with the number of arms to vary based on the size of each client's participant list (to ensure sufficient statistical power within each client's sample). Emmi will deliver the calls and track individual responses to questions posed during the call. Emmi will then provide a de-identified dataset to the academic research team for analysis to determine whether any scripts provided greater or lesser effects to people's their motivations to get a flu vaccination.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALViral changes
Telephone script language provided pre-questions regarding the fact that influenza viruses change each year
BEHAVIORALProtect others
Telephone script language provided pre-questions emphasizing the need to protect vulnerable others
BEHAVIORALGeneral intentions
Question language asking about general interest in getting influenza vaccination
BEHAVIORALBehavioral intentions
Question language asking individual to make specific plans to be vaccinated
BEHAVIORALAccountability
Question language asking individual whether their care team can learn about their vaccination intentions
Sponsors
Emmi Solutions
University of Iowa
University of Utah
University of Michigan
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Patient of client organizations of Emmi Solutions * Provided a phone number to their care team
Exclusion criteria
\-
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Vaccination intentions (Time 1) | Day 1 (Assessed during the intervention telephone call) | Question (language being manipulated) asking whether respondent intends to vaccinate |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Documented influenza vaccination | Within 6 months / during 2017-2018 influenza season | Documentation (when available from Emmi Solutions' clients) via clients' employee records that influenza vaccination occurred |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed