Promoting vaccination in the province of Quebec: the PromoVaQ randomized controlled trial protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Vaccination has a huge public health impact. Maintaining vaccine coverage is key to avoid the devastating consequences of resurgence. In the Province of Québec, vaccine coverage in young children are sub-optimal, mostly due to ambivalence toward vaccine safety and efficacy. We previously conducted a regional study in the Québec's Eastern Townships region, the PromoVac Study, to test a new educational intervention, based on motivational interviewing techniques, aimed at promoting infant vaccination. This first study evidenced that the intervention led to a marked increase in mothers' intention to vaccinate, and vaccine coverage in their infants. The current study protocol aims at scaling up these results at a provincial level using a randomized controlled trial design.

SUBMITTER: Gagneur A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6364424 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature