Vaccination Education Through Pharmacists and Senior Centers (VEPSC)
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Infectious Disease, Pneumonia, Bacterial, Influenza, Zoster; Herpes
In brief
The study consists of two arms (PHARM and PEER) designed to educate participants about three vaccine-preventable diseases (zoster, pneumonia, and influenza) and vaccination. PHARM will consist of a 60-minute presentation about the three vaccine-preventable diseases and their vaccinations delivered by a pharmacist, featuring a didactic lecture and discussion supplemented by video clips of community members discussing their experiences around vaccination, as well as physicians underscoring the importance of vaccination. PEER will consist of a 60-minute small-group session led by a peer educator which includes scripted roleplaying exercises designed to reinforce learnings pertaining to these three vaccine-preventable diseases and their vaccinations. The components of these interventions will be designed to address specific barriers to vaccination identified by literature search and our prior work in the area of community-based vaccine education. Both arms will focus primarily on pneumococcal disease and zoster but will include limited content on influenza because participants are likely to have questions about how the flu and its vaccination differ from pneumococcal diseases and zoster. The study will be implemented in an older, predominantly African-American (AA) population, consistent with our prior work in this area.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03239665
- Run by
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- People needed
- 335
- Starts
- 2017-10-10
- Expected to finish
- 2019-08-31
- Last updated by the study team
- 2020-07-01
Who can join
Age: 50 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Age ≥50;
- Can attend a 2-hour session (though both PHARM and PEER entail 60 minutes of intervention, an additional hour is needed to allow for informed consent and data collection);
- Speak and read English at ≥4th grade level as determined by a brief reading passage;
- Cognitively intact as evidenced by an Abbreviated Mental Status Test score ≥7.
You may not qualify if…
- Failure to meet inclusion criteria
- Failure to give informed consent to participate in the study
Where it is running
- Rutgers University — Piscataway, New Jersey, United States
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