Improving immunisation coverage in rural India: clustered randomised controlled evaluation of immunisation campaigns with and without incentives.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the efficacy of modest non-financial incentives on immunisation rates in children aged 1-3 and to compare it with the effect of only improving the reliability of the supply of services.

Design

Clustered randomised controlled study.

Setting

Rural Rajasthan, India.

Participants

1640 children aged 1-3 at end point.

Interventions

134 villages were randomised to one of three groups: a once monthly reliable immunisation camp (intervention A; 379 children from 30 villages); a once monthly reliable immunisation camp with small incentives (raw lentils and metal plates for completed immunisation; intervention B; 382 children from 30 villages), or control (no intervention, 860 children in 74 villages). Surveys were undertaken in randomly selecte

SUBMITTER: Banerjee AV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2871989 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature