Effect of Immunization Education Program on Parental Vaccine Hesitation

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Nurse's Role
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: immunization education program

Detailed Description

The aim of the research will be carried out using a parallel group (experiment-control) randomized controlled design, which is one of the experimental methods, to determine the effect of the immunization education program on parents' vaccine hesitancy.

Goals:

• To examine the effect of the immunization education program on parents' vaccine hesitancy,
• To compare the average scores of the vaccine hesitancy scale between the parents in the experimental group and the control group in the project.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 60
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: AKDENİZ KUDUBEŞ, PHD; Phone Number: 5432715190; Email: asli.akdeniz@bilecik.edu.tr

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Bilecik, Turkey
    • Recruiting
    • Asli Akdeniz Kudubeş
    • Contact: ASLI AKDENİZ KUDUBEŞ, PHD; Phone Number: 5432715190; Email: asli.akdeniz@bilecik.edu.tr

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• 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

Exclusion Criteria:

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control group; No intervention
Experimental: Experimental group; Researchers will administer the immunization education program to parents.	Other: immunization education program; 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.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
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

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Bilecik Seyh Edebali Universitesi
• Collaborators: The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
• Investigators: Study Director: AKDENİZ KUDUBEŞ, Bilecik Seyh Edebali University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): March 1, 2024
• Primary Completion (Estimated): July 1, 2024
• Study Completion (Estimated): March 1, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 1, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 9, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): July 10, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 10, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 9, 2024
• Last Verified: July 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Parents; Education; Immunization
• Other Study ID Numbers: aslıkudubes

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