Vaccination Refusal
Conditions
Keywords
COVID-19, vaccination, masks, incentives
Brief summary
Working with governments in Bihar, India, we will evaluate a number of mechanisms to increase vaccine uptake. These include household vaccination visits instead of community vaccination clinic.monetary and non-monetary incentives, and concurrent mask promotion. This ClinicalTrials entry contains results only for the study in Bihar.
Detailed description
The goal of the study is to identify strategies that best promote and support COVID vaccine uptake in developing countries, we propose to test a range of scalable social and behavioural interventions. This could help policy makers design and employ interventions that are effective. This is especially valuable in resource constrained contexts where funds and institutional resources can be diverted towards interventions that have proven to work. In Bihar the intervention will be village-level social mobilization involving community promotion, including in-person vaccine reinforcement, and household-level social mobilization. Some treatment villages will receive household- level interventions with varying intensity (different proportion of households will be visited). There will also an accompanying mask distribution campaign during household visits where the importance of mask-wearing as a complement to vaccine use will be explained. This ClinicalTrials entry contains results only for the study in Bihar.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALIncentives to be vaccinated
Individuals will be provided with a guaranteed cash payment, entry into a cash lottery, or guaranteed gift of food if they are vaccinated
DEVICEMask
Individuals are given cloth masks
BEHAVIORALEncouragement to wear a mask
Individuals who are not wearing masks over their mouth and nose are stopped in public places and encouraged to wear a mask
BEHAVIORALVaccination made more convenient
Vaccines are conducted at the household-level rather than the village-level
BEHAVIORALSocial mobilization campaign to be vaccinated
Village-level social mobilization campaign to be vaccinated
Sponsors
University of Connecticut
Lahore University of Management Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
Innovations for Poverty Action
Yale University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Masking description
The investigator and outcome assessor will be blind to study arm assignment. Due to the nature of the intervention, participants and care providers will not be blind to intervention assignment; however they are likely to be unaware of intervention components because they are not expect to communicate with those who are assigned to a different intervention arm
Intervention model description
There are five arms. Arm 1: Control; Arm 2: Village-level vaccine clinics with monetary, non-monetary, or no incentive; Arm 3: Household-level vaccination with monetary, non-monetary, or no incentive; Arm 4: Mask promotion; Arm 5: Village-level vaccine clinics and mask promotion
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
15 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Lives in study village
Exclusion criteria
* Does not live in study village
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Percent of individuals who receive the first, second, or third dose of covid vaccine | up to 4 weeks (endline may vary depending on estimated uptake rates) | Prevalence of vaccination with difference doses |
Countries
India
Outcome results
None listed