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Administration of the Nasal Influenza Vaccine to Children in Daycare or at a Healthcare Facility

Administration of the Nasal Influenza Vaccine to Children in Daycare or at a Healthcare Facility

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT07310472
Enrollment
6000
Registered
2025-12-30
Start date
2025-10-27
Completion date
2026-03-31
Last updated
2026-01-22

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Influenza Vaccination

Keywords

Influenza, Children, Vaccination coverage, Nasal influenza vaccine

Brief summary

The goal of this intervention study is to learn if giving children influenza vaccinations in early childhood education facilities (i.e., daycare) will increase vaccination coverage compared to giving vaccinations only at healthcare. The main question it aims to answer is: • Does offering children nasal influenza vaccine in daycare result in higher proportion of children getting influenza vaccine. Researchers will compare daycare setting and healthcare setting as the location of giving influenza vaccines to children to see if more children will get vaccinated if they have an opportunity to receive nasal influenza vaccine at daycare. Participants in the intervention group will: • Have the opportunity to receive influenza vaccine in the daycare or in the healthcare Participants in the comparison group will: • Have the opportunity to receive influenza vaccine in the healthcare only

Interventions

BEHAVIORALPossibility to get live attenuated nasal influenza vaccine at daycare

The intervention is the possibility to get influenza vaccine in the daycare, in comparison to routine practice of getting influenza vaccine in a healthcare setting.

Sponsors

Turku University Hospital
Lead SponsorOTHER_GOV
University of Turku
CollaboratorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE

Intervention model description

Cluster-randomized study, daycare units being clusters for randomization. Data collection from the vaccination registry.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
2 Years to 6 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Attending early childhood education (daycare) in the city of Turku

Exclusion criteria

* No

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Influenza vaccination coverageFrom enrollment to the end of seasonal influenza vaccinations about 3 to 10 weeks later.Study child receiving any influenza vaccine

Countries

Finland

Contacts

CONTACTVille Peltola, MD, PhD
ville.peltola@varha.fi+35823132415

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026