Clinical Trial: Making Decisions About the Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: Developing a Computer-based Intervention That Provides Individually-tailored Educational Information for MMR Vaccine-hesitant Parents

Brief Summary: The goal of this study is to determine whether a computer-based intervention that delivers individually-tailored educational messages about the MMR vaccine increases MMR vaccine-hesitant parents' intentions to have their children vaccinated.

Detailed Summary: This will be a randomized controlled intervention trial for MMR vaccine-hesitant parents of children ages six years and younger who have not yet received the MMR vaccine. Parents will complete a three-item measure that assesses their baseline intentions for having their children vaccinated with MMR. Participants will then fill out a short, computer-based survey that assesses demographic factors, prior experience with MMR, and views about a variety of potential barriers to MMR vaccination. Following the survey, the intervention group (40 parents) will view a series of tailored educational messages resembling web pages that uses their survey data to address at an individual level their specific concerns about the MMR vaccine. The control group (40 parents) will view a series of generic educational messages resembling web pages that is similar in appearance to the intervention, but contains only untailored information about the vaccine. After navigating through these educational messages, MMR vaccination intention will be reassessed using the same three-item measure as for the baseline assessment of vaccination intention. The vaccine administration records of the children of these parents will be accessed after parents' participation in the study to assess whether the MMR vaccine was provided to the child.
Sponsor: University of Michigan

Current Primary Outcome: Parent's intention to vaccinate child against MMR [ Time Frame: Date of intervention (one day) ]

Parent will rate his/her intention to have child vaccinated against MMR using a Likert scale before and after the intervention.


Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome: Use of the intervention [ Time Frame: At the time of intervention participation ]

We will assess the number of pages viewed and time spend per page for each participant viewing the intervention.


Original Secondary Outcome: Vaccination of child [ Time Frame: Less than or equal to thirteen months from the date of the intervention ]

With the parent's consent, child's University of Michigan vaccination record will be accessed to determine whether child has received any doses of the MMR vaccine. If the University of Michigan vaccination record does not document a vaccination at age 13 months (for children less than or equal to 1 year of age on the intervention date) or 6 months after the intervention (for children >1 year of age on the intervention date), with the parent's consent, research staff will call parent at home to determine whether child has received any doses of the MMR vaccine.


Information By: University of Michigan

Dates:
Date Received: June 7, 2011
Date Started: June 2011
Date Completion:
Last Updated: December 8, 2014
Last Verified: December 2014