Clinical trial NCT01773759: Immunization Protection in Child Care (IPiCC) Project
Official title: Strategies to Improve Vaccination Coverage in Child Care Centers and Preschools
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Up-to-date Immunization Status for Children in Child Care
Keywords: Immunizations
Child care
School health promotion
Lead sponsor: University of Utah
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
name: Utah Department of Health
First posted: 2013-01-23
Enrollment: 107
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Ensuring that all children are fully immunized against vaccine-preventable diseases is a critical public health issue. Child care programs are critical targets for efforts to increase the proportion of infants and young children who are fully immunized. The primary objective of this proposal is to rigorously examine current state, local government, and child care providers' efforts and barriers to ensuring that all enrolled children are up-to-date for required immunizations and to evaluate strategies to improve immunization coverage in child care programs.

Detailed description: Specific Aim 1 will describe Utah state and local government activities to ensure compliance of child care programs with state immunization requirements and identify government's barriers to ensuring compliance.

Specific Aim 2 will describe child care program staffs' knowledge, attitudes, and activities related to ensuring that all children are up-to-date for required immunizations and identify program barriers to ensuring up-to-date status.

Specific Aim 3 will evaluate at least 3 strategies to ensure that all children enrolled in child care programs are up-to-date for required immunizations. Aims 1 and 2 will guide the design of these strategies. Specific strategies proposed for Aim 3 are to: 1) design and pilot test an intervention to increase child care program use of the Utah State Immunization Information System (USIIS), 2) design an online immunization education module and conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial to determine whether use of the module changes child care providers' knowledge, attitudes, and activities and increases the proportion of children who are up-to-date for required immunizations; and 3) conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial to determine whether a quality improvement intervention implemented in child care programs increases the proportion of children who are up-to-date for required immunizations.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Child care programs not currently registered to use the Utah State Immunization Information System (USIIS) in Utah counties with acceptable USIIS coverage will be included.

Exclusion Criteria:

Child care programs in Utah counties with lower than acceptable USIIS coverage will be excluded.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Children enrolled in child care program up-to-date for required immunizations
timeFrame: Up to 2 years
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Salt Lake City
country: United States
facility: University of Utah
state: Utah
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Utah
name: Julie H. Shakib, DO, MPH
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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