Do Postcard Reminders Improve Influenza Vaccination Compliance?

Larson, Eric B.; Bergman, James; Heidrich, Fred E.; Alvin, Barbara L.; Schneeweiss, R

doi:10.1097/00005650-198206000-00010

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“…Other studies also suggest that recruitment and service delivery strategies (Prochaska, Redding, Evers, 1997), and reminders from services providers (Larson, 1982) may also facilitate involvement in prevention programs. Monetary incentives have been also shown to be positively associated with recruitment and retention in HIV prevention programs.…”

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Motivators and Barriers to Participation of Ethnic Minority Families in a Family-Based HIV Prevention Program

Pinto

McKay

Baptiste³

et al. 2007

Social Work in Mental Health

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Motivators and Barriers to Participation of Ethnic Minority Families in a Family-Based HIV Prevention Program

Pinto

McKay

Baptiste³

et al. 2007

Social Work in Mental Health

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“…Cues to action are situational factors that prompt one to get vaccinated. Interventions 15,16 guided by the HBM have been shown to increase vaccination rates.…”

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Knowledge and awareness of human papillomavirus and intention with regard to human papillomavirus vaccine uptake by female tertiary students in the Eastern Cape province

Chikandiwa

Wyk

2013

Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and Infection

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Original Research: Knowledge and awareness of human papillomavirus In 2008, two human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines, Cervarix ® and Gardasil ® , were licensed for use in South Africa. Initial models showed that vaccination could lead to an approximate 70% decline in cervical cancer cases. This paper describes the knowledge, awareness and health beliefs about HPV and the HPV vaccine, and the intentions of female tertiary students with respect of being vaccinated with the latter. An observational, descriptive and analytical cross-sectional survey was conducted among 150 female tertiary students at a university in the Eastern Cape province in this regard. Knowledge and awareness of HPV and the HPV vaccine were poor. Only 22.7% of the students were aware of HPV and that an HPV vaccine was available in South Africa. However, most respondents (80%) reported a willingness to be vaccinated. Being aware of the existence of a Papanicolaou smear, higher knowledge of HPV, higher perceived vaccine effectiveness and higher perceived severity of HPV infection were significantly associated with increased willingness to be vaccinated. There is a need for education on HPV and its vaccination in South Africa. An effective vaccine marketing strategy should emphasise the effectiveness of the vaccine, the susceptibility of women to contracting HPV and the severity of being infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.Peer reviewed.

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“…2 Computer-based systems have the potential to identify high-risk patients and produce automated mailed reminders recommending vaccination. Some studies, [3][4][5][6][7][8][9] but not all, [10][11][12] have demonstrated increases in influenza vaccination rates among high-risk patients who were mailed reminders. Shea et al performed a meta-analysis of published randomized, controlled trials and concluded that computer reminders increased vaccinations when compared with a control group.…”

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“…5 Computer-generated tailored messages have been shown to affect several preventive interventions. 15,16 These studies developed sophisticated tailored messages using information that was collected during baseline interviews thought to be relevant to the behavior of interest.…”

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Influenza immunization in a managed care organization

Baker¹,

McCarthy

Gurley³

et al. 1998

J Gen Intern Med

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OBJECTIVE:To compare the effects of different types of computer-generated, mailed reminders on the rate of influenza immunization and to analyze the relative cost-effectiveness of the reminders. DESIGN: Randomized controlled trial.SETTING: Multispeciality group practice. PATIENTS:We studied 24,743 high-risk adult patients aligned with a primary care physician. INTERVENTION:Patients were randomized to one of four interventions: (1) no reminder, which served as control; (2) a generic postcard; (3) a personalized postcard from their physician; and (4) a personalized letter from their physician, tailored to their health risk. MEASUREMENTS:The immunization rate was measured using billing data. A telephone survey was conducted in a subgroup of patients to measure reactions to the mailed reminders. To evaluate the cost-effectiveness, a model was constructed that integrated the observed effect of the interventions with published data on the effect of immunization on future inpatient health care costs. MAIN RESULTS:All three of the reminders studied increased the influenza vaccination rate when compared with the control group. The vaccination rate was 40.6% in the control group, 43.5% in the generic postcard group, 44.7% in the personalized postcard group, and 45.2% in the tailored letter group. The rates of immunization increased as the intensity of the intervention increased ( p Ͻ .0001). Seventy-eight percent of patients in the letter group deemed the intervention useful, and 86% reported that they would like to get reminders in the future. The cost-effectiveness analysis estimated that in a nonepidemic year, the net savings per 100 reminders sent would be $659 for the personalized postcard intervention and $735 for the tailored letter intervention. When these net cost-savings rates were each applied to the entire high-risk cohort of 24,743 patients, the estimated total net savings was $162,940 for the postcard and $181,858 for the tailored letter. CONCLUSIONS:Although the absolute increase in immunization rates with the use of reminders appeared small, the increases translated into substantial cost savings when applied to a large high-risk population. Personalized reminders were somewhat more effective in increasing immunization, and personalized letters tailored to the patients' condition were deemed useful and important by the individuals who received them and had a beneficial indirect effect on patient satisfaction.

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Do Postcard Reminders Improve Influenza Vaccination Compliance?

Cited by 108 publications

References 20 publications

Motivators and Barriers to Participation of Ethnic Minority Families in a Family-Based HIV Prevention Program

Motivators and Barriers to Participation of Ethnic Minority Families in a Family-Based HIV Prevention Program

Knowledge and awareness of human papillomavirus and intention with regard to human papillomavirus vaccine uptake by female tertiary students in the Eastern Cape province

Influenza immunization in a managed care organization

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