Randomized controlled trial on promoting influenza vaccination in general practice waiting rooms.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most of general practitioners (GPs) use advertising in their waiting rooms for patient's education purposes. Patients vaccinated against seasonal influenza have been gradually lessening. The objective of this trial was to assess the effect of an advertising campaign for influenza vaccination using posters and pamphlets in GPs' waiting rooms.

Methods and findings

Registry based 2/1 cluster randomized controlled trial, a cluster gathering the enlisted patients of 75 GPs aged over 16 years. The trial, run during the 2014-2015 influenza vaccination campaign, compared patient's awareness from being in 50 GPs' standard waiting rooms (control group) versus that of waiting in 25 rooms from GPs who had received and exposed pamphlets and one poster on influenza vaccine (int

SUBMITTER: Berkhout C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5806862 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature