Upgrading the school entry vaccination record check strategy to improve varicella vaccination coverage: results from a quasi-experiment study
| Autor: | Wei Qin, Yao Wang, Shaoyu Xie, Xiang-Mei Meng, Hong Su, Fan Pan, Xiao-Kang Xu, Shishi Cheng, Ruyu Ni, Hailin Tao, Jian Song, Tingyue Nie |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Vaccination Coverage Varicella vaccine 030231 tropical medicine Immunology education School entry Varicella vaccination Chickenpox Vaccine 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Chickenpox medicine Immunology and Allergy Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Pharmacology Schools business.industry Vaccination Vaccination coverage Family medicine business Quasi-experiment Research Paper |
| Zdroj: | Hum Vaccin Immunother |
| ISSN: | 2164-554X |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND: The school entry vaccination record check strategy (SECS) is an appropriate opportunity to recommend vaccines for students to improve vaccination coverage (VC). However, it is only utilized for providing necessary catch-up vaccination for students who are missing the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) vaccines in China. We aimed to address that gap and quantify the relationship between the SECS policy and the increase of coverage in varicella vaccine (VarV). METHODS: We employed a pretest and posttest quasi-experimental design to examine the effect of the upgraded SECS policy on the change of VarV coverage in newly enrolled students in Lu’an, 2019–2020. RESULTS: Eight hundred participants were randomly divided into the control group (C group, 31.8%), the telephone-based intervention group (T group, 31.2%), and the written notification intervention group (W group, 37.0%). Totally, 84 students received VarV during the study period, with a VC of 10.5%. The possibility of vaccination in the T group (RR = 4.9, 95% CI:2.2–10.9) and W group (RR = 5.2, 95% CI:2.4–11.5) was significantly higher than that in the C group (p |
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