Improving vaccination uptake among adolescents

Abdullahi, Leila; Kagina, Benjamin M.; Ndze, Valentine Ngum; Hussey, Gregory; Wiysonge, Charles Shey

doi:10.1002/14651858.cd011895.pub2

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“…Introduction or integration of the game in science or health classes could reinforce the educational aspects and impact on vaccine uptake, as evidenced in the Cochrane review of adolescent vaccine interventions. 14 …”

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“…Vaxcards is a novel intervention that addresses many recommendations made in the recent Cochrane review of effective interventions to improve vaccine uptake in adolescents. 14 These elements include being an ethical incentive that can be incorporated into other health education and health promotion initiatives as part of multicomponent approaches to support vaccine uptake among school-aged children. This potential requires further investigation in order to assess its impact on vaccine uptake and vaccine confidence.…”

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“… 13 A Cochrane review of strategies to improve vaccine uptake in adolescents showed health education, class-based school vaccine strategy, multicomponent provider interventions and targeting parents and financial incentives may all improve uptake. 14 …”

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“…A Cochrane review called for a more understanding of adolescent-specific hesitancy and targeted interventions that are class-based, multimodal, use appropriate incentives and involve health education delivery. 14 There is other evidence that game-based interventions can be a successful modality for behaviour change, when they are carefully designed for the right context and consider the right mechanism of action. 21 All of these are potentially modifiable by Vaxcards—a collectable, educational table-top card game.…”

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Pragmatic cluster randomised control trial using Vaxcards as an age-appropriate tool to incentivise and educate school students about vaccination

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ObjectiveThis trial aimed to determine if return rates of consent forms for vaccination could be improved when Vaxcards were offered as an incentive to school children.SettingNineteen schools in South East Melbourne participated.InterventionsStudents in the experimental arm received a pack of Vaxcards when they returned their government consent form.Outcome measuresReturn of ‘yes’ consent forms for vaccination as part of a local government council vaccine programme was the primary outcome of this trial. Return rates were compared between the intervention and control schools and with historical return rates.ResultsSecondary school students (N=3087) from 19 schools participated. Compared with historical returns, a small global reduction in ‘yes’ responses to consent forms of −4.21% in human papilloma virus consent ‘yes’ responses and −4.69% for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis was observed across all schools. No difference between the experimental and control groups was observed.ConclusionsLow ‘yes’ consent rates and reduction in consent rates between 2018 and 2019 for all groups are concerning. This finding highlights the need for behaviour change interventions across all groups to increase vaccine confidence. Lack of effect of incentivisation with Vaxcards in this study may have been due to the timing of receiving the cards (after the decision to vaccinate had been made, not before) and the limited intensity of the intervention. Optimising the timing and the intensity of exposure to Vaxcards could improve the outcome.Trial registration numberACTRN12618001753246.

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Pragmatic cluster randomised control trial using Vaxcards as an age-appropriate tool to incentivise and educate school students about vaccination

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“…Several types of strategies to increase vaccination coverage in general or for specific vaccines such as the one against HPV have been already described in the scientific literature [18][19][20][21][22][23]. Some authors [18,19,22] reviewed strategies to improve adolescents' vaccination coverage for different types of vaccine or the effect of specific interventions, namely, patient reminders and recall systems, to improve immunization rates in the whole population [23]. Other papers specifically focused on HPV, investigating strategies targeted to both adolescents and younger adults (11-26 years) [20,21,24].…”

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Increasing HPV Vaccination Uptake among Adolescents: A Systematic Review

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Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is a well-known fundamental strategy in the prevention of cervical cancer, as it is always caused by HPV infection. In fact, primary prevention of the infection corresponds to primary prevention of HPV-related cancers and other diseases. Since an effective prevention at the population level is the final goal, it is mandatory for healthcare systems to achieve a high HPV vaccination coverage among the adolescents to reduce the circulation of the virus and the burden of HPV-related diseases. This research identified, through a systematic literature review, 38 papers on strategies adopted to increase HPV vaccination coverage among adolescents. The evaluated strategies targeted adolescents/parents and/or healthcare providers and could be grouped in three main types: (1) reminder-based, (2) education, information, and communication activities, and (3) multicomponent strategies. Several types of strategy, such as those relied only on reminders and integrating different interventions, showed a positive impact on vaccination coverage. Nonetheless, the heterogeneity of the interventions suggests the importance to adapt such strategies to the specific national/local contexts to maximize vaccination coverage.

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