COVID-19
Conditions
Keywords
COVID-19, behavioral science interventions, vaccination promotion
Brief summary
This experiment is part of a megastudy with a total of ten experimental conditions and a holdout control condition to which patients will be randomly assigned. Ther focal comparison in this experiment is between a message encouraging vaccination by reminding participants that the holiday season is just a few weeks away and getting vaccinated will allow them to more safely gather with loved ones and a control message telling patients that an updated COVID booster vaccine is waiting for them. The intervention testing if text messages encouraging vaccination by reminding participants that the holiday season is just a few weeks away and getting vaccinated will allow them to more safely gather with loved ones will produce more vaccinations than otherwise identical messages.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALCOVID Booster text messages
Participants will receive text messages per descriptions listed in the arms.
Sponsors
University of Pennsylvania
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
DOUBLE (Caregiver, Outcomes Assessor)
Masking description
As treated participants will receive text messages, there is no scope for blinding. Care providers will not be made aware of subjects' participation in the study, or assigned treatment arms. The study team will only receive data on subjects' assigned arms and outcomes at the end of the study.
Intervention model description
Participants will be randomly assigned to the different arms.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Exclusion criteria
1. The patient unsubscribed from texts before the send date and time of the patient's SMS/MMS message 2. The patient received a bivalent COVID booster before the send date and time of the patient's SMS/MMS message.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| COVID bivalent booster receipt | During the 30 days after receiving the SMS/MMS intervention | Whether patients receive a bivalent COVID booster at the pharmacy in question |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| COVID bivalent booster receipt | 60 days after receiving the SMS/MMS intervention | Whether patients receive a bivalent COVID booster at the pharmacy in question |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed