Patient-Centered Practical Vaccine Talk for Busy Clinicians (PCP-VAX): An Educational Intervention for Primary Care Providers on Influenza and COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among Adult Primary Care Patients
University of Massachusetts, Worcester
Summary
The goal of this study is to assess the effect of an educational intervention for primary care providers (PCPs) on influenza and COVID-19 vaccine uptake among their adult patients through a pragmatic, cluster randomized trial in primary care clinics.
Description
Low uptake of the COVID-19 and influenza vaccines is a major public health threat. An estimated 234,000 deaths due to COVID-19 could have been prevented between June 2021 and March 2022 through vaccination. Yet, only 20% of US adults are up to date on COVID-19 vaccination, despite widespread vaccine availability, and evidence of vaccine effectiveness at preventing hospitalization or death. Similarly, flu shots prevented an estimated 105,000 hospitalizations and 6,300 deaths during the 2019-2020 season alone, but only 50% of adults received a flu shot in the 2020-2021 influenza season, and thes…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion criteria for primary care provider participants are as follows: * Practicing primary care provider at study clinic during the study period * Licensed independent practitioner (MD, DO, NP, PA), including residents Exclusion criteria for primary care provider participants are as follows: * PCPs at participating clinic sites who are members of the investigational team or part of the intervention * PCP participants who practice at more than one study clinic that are assigned to discordant study arms (e.g., control and intervention) will be excluded at the outset of the study. Inclusi…
Interventions
- OtherProvider communication training
Providers in participating intervention clinics will complete an educational program (PCP-VAX) on strategies for communicating with patients about the influenza and COVID-19 vaccines.
Location
- UMass Chan Medical SchoolWorcester, Massachusetts