Vaccine Attitudes and Practices of Hospital Specialists (SPECIVAC)

This study aims to evaluate the perceptions and knowledge of hospital specialists regarding vaccine recommendations targeting their patients, to study their behavior with respect to these recommendations and to quantify their vaccine hesitancy.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Vaccine Practice
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Questionnaire

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 1851

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Annecy, France, 74370
    • CRC Annecy
  • Besançon, France, 25030
    • CIC Besançon
  • Clermont-Ferrand, France, 63003
    • CIC Clermont-Ferrand
  • Dijon, France, 21079
    • CIC Dijon
  • Lille, France, 59045
    • CIC Lille
  • Limoges, France, 87042
    • CIC Limoges
  • Lyon, France, 69437
    • Service d'Hygiène, Epidémiologie et Prévention, Groupement Hospitalier Edouard Herriot et Unité de recherche clinique ne Immunologie du centre hospitalier Lyon Sud
  • Montpellier, France, 34295
    • CIC Montpellier
  • Nancy, France, 54511
    • Service de maladies infectieuses Nancy
  • Nîmes, France, 30029
    • Service de maladies infectieuses Nîmes
  • Rennes, France, 35033
    • CIC Rennes
  • Strasbourg, France, 67000
    • CIC Strasbourg
  • Ile De France
    • Paris, Ile De France, France, 75014
      • CIC Cochin Pasteur
    • Paris, Ile De France, France, 75877
      • CIC Bichat

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

• Physicians with a frequent activity of practice and advice vaccines, called "vaccinators" (most medical specialties): 100% of those meeting the inclusion criteria will be contacted for inclusion
• Physicians "no or weak vaccinators" (anesthesiologists, surgeons, psychiatrists…): 30% of those meeting the inclusion criteria will be chosen by drawing lots

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• To be a physician in one of the participating institutions
• Or to be a contract physician in participating institutions

Exclusion Criteria:

• Interns
• Attached practitioners
• Emergency physicians

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Proportions of Hospital Specialists (HS) with knowledge of vaccine recommendations targeting their patients	15 minutes
Proportions of HS regularly recommending recommended vaccines to their patients	15 minutes
Proportions of HS with doubts about recommended vaccines	15 minutes

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Link between perception of benefits and risks of vaccines, knowledge of vaccine-preventable diseases, trust in different sources of information and vaccine hesitancy will be measured by questionnaire (measure by multiple logistic regressions)		15 minutes
Measure of attitudes and practices of HS vis-a-vis to vaccination and their specialty by questionnaire	number of HS vaccinator or not by specialty in connection with their attitudes and practices	15 minutes
Percentages of HS feeling sufficiently trained or confident to explain to patients about vaccines		15 minutes
Percentages of HS claiming to be vaccinated, by type of vaccine		15 minutes
Percentages of HS children reported vaccinated by type of vaccine		15 minutes

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
• Collaborators: Innovative clinical research network in vaccinology (I-REIVAC); Observatoire Régionale de la santé ORS-PACA
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Odile LAUNAY, Professor, CIC 1417 Centre d'investigation clinique; Study Chair: Pierre VERGER, MD, ORS PACA UMR 912 SESSTIM

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 1, 2018
• Primary Completion (Actual): October 4, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): October 4, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 11, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 10, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): January 18, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 19, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 16, 2021
• Last Verified: April 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Vaccine hesitancy; Hospital specialists (HS); Vaccination survey
• Other Study ID Numbers: NI16019

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No