Effect of Immunization Education Program on Parental Vaccine Hesitation

NCT06495359 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: aslıkudubes
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Not administering vaccines due to vaccine hesitancy is both a potential public health problem and a difficult and risky situation for healthcare professionals. Health sector workers play a very important role in vaccinating families. As public awareness increases, interest in these vaccines is likely to increase. Made works; It shows that healthcare professionals and physicians establishing trust and communicating effectively with vaccine recipients and parents is one of the most effective ways to eliminate vaccine hesitations. They stated that in order for childhood vaccines to be administered at a high rate, effective communication should first be established with parents. This project aimed to determine the effect of the immunization education program on parents' vaccine hesitancy. The project is designed as a randomized controlled study and will consist of experimental and control groups. An education program regarding immunization will be applied to the parents in the experimental group. The originality of this project is the evaluation of the effect of the immunization education program applied to parents whose children are hospitalized on vaccine hesitancy. Although studies on vaccine hesitancy in parents have increased in recent years, most of them consist of descriptive studies aimed at determining the level of vaccine hesitancy and affecting factors. No intervention studies on the effect of immunization education in parents on vaccine hesitancy have been found.

Conditions

Nurse's Role

Keywords

Immunization; Parents; Education

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Parental Vaccination Hesitancy Scale mean score

  The effect of the applied education on the mean score of the Parental Vaccination Hesitancy Scale will be evaluated.

  up to 10 months

Study Arms (2)

Experimental group

EXPERIMENTAL

Researchers will administer the immunization education program to parents.

Other: immunization education program

Control group

NO INTERVENTION

No intervention

Interventions

immunization education program OTHER

The content of the immunization education program for parents was created by researchers based on the literature. Expert opinions will be obtained from 7 people who are experts in the fields of child health and disease nursing and public health nursing for the training program. The training program consists of 30 minutes. The education program will be delivered to parents in the form of a 30-minute training session using the face-to-face education model. Interactive education methods that enable parents' participation will be used.

Experimental group

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Having a child between the ages of 0-6,
• admitted to the pediatric ward,
• who have not previously received training on immunization
• Parents who volunteered to participate in the study

You may not qualify if:

• illiterate
• parents with mental retardation, vision and hearing impairment

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Bilecik Seyh Edebali Universitesi: lead
• The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Asli Akdeniz Kudubeş

Bilecik, Turkey (Türkiye)

RECRUITING

Study Officials

• AKDENİZ KUDUBEŞ

  BİLECİK ŞEYH EDEBALİ UNIVERSITY

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Central Study Contacts

AKDENİZ KUDUBEŞ, PHD

CONTACT

5432715190; asli.akdeniz@bilecik.edu.tr

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Model Details: A parallel group (experiment-control) randomized controlled design, which is one of the experimental methods

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 1, 2024
• First Posted: July 10, 2024
• Study Start: March 1, 2024
• Primary Completion: July 1, 2024
• Study Completion: March 1, 2025
• Last Updated: July 10, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)