A meta-analysis of influenza vaccination following correspondence: Considerations for COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Background

High vaccination rates are needed to protect against influenza and to end the COVID-19 pandemic. Health authorities need to know if supplementing mass communications with direct correspondence to the community would increase uptake.

Objectives

The primary objective is to determine if sending a single written message directly to individuals increases influenza vaccine uptake, and a secondary objective is to identify any identified content shown to increase influenza vaccine uptake.

Methods

MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane CENTRAL, PsycINFO, and PubMed were searched for RCTs testing a single correspondence for members of the community in OECD countries to obtain influenza vaccination. A meta-analysis with inverse-variance, random-effects modelling was used to estima

SUBMITTER: Murphy RP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8592234 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature