The Healthy, Immunized Communities Study: A pilot intervention to increase parents' intentions to get vaccines for their middle school children.

ABSTRACT: Pennsylvania shortened the provisional period for student vaccine compliance in 2018. We pilot tested a school-based health education intervention, The Healthy, Immunized Communities Study, to improve parents' intentions to get school-required (tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis [Tdap]; and meningococcal conjugate [MCV]) and recommended (human papillomavirus [HPV]) vaccines for their children. In Phase 1, we partnered with the School District of Lancaster (SDL) to conduct four focus groups with stakeholders (local clinicians, school staff, school nurses, and parents) to inform the development of the intervention. In Phase 2, we randomized four middle schools in SDL to either the intervention (six email communications and school-community educational event) or control group. Se

SUBMITTER: Calo WA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9978848 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature