The development of a digital intervention to increase influenza vaccination amongst pregnant women

Parsons, Joanne; Newby, Katie; French, David P.; Bailey, Elizabeth; Inglis, Nadia

doi:10.1177/20552076211012128

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“…There are several, effective and safe to use in pregnancy, pharmaceutical interventions at our disposal. While additional NPIs are needed to increase vaccination uptake among pregnant women [e.g., a digital intervention addressing beliefs about influenza infection and vaccination ( 47 )] on the whole influenza surveillance and public health responses serve pregnant women well largely because the risks are well understood, consequently their needs are in focus during influenza outbreaks.…”

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The perinatal health challenges of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: A narrative review

Malange

Hedermann

Lausten-Thomsen

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Front. Public Health

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The world has seen numerous infectious disease outbreaks in the past decade. In many cases these outbreaks have had considerable perinatal health consequences including increased risk of preterm delivery (e.g., influenza, measles, and COVID-19), and the delivery of low birth weight or small for gestational age babies (e.g., influenza, COVID-19). Furthermore, severe perinatal outcomes including perinatal and infant death are a known consequence of multiple infectious diseases (e.g., Ebola virus disease, Zika virus disease, pertussis, and measles). In addition to vaccination during pregnancy (where possible), pregnant women, are provided some level of protection from the adverse effects of infection through community-level application of evidence-based transmission-control methods. This review demonstrates that it takes almost 2 years for the perinatal impacts of an infectious disease outbreak to be reported. However, many infectious disease outbreaks between 2010 and 2020 have no associated pregnancy data reported in the scientific literature, or pregnancy data is reported in the form of case-studies only. This lack of systematic data collection and reporting has a negative impact on our understanding of these diseases and the implications they may have for pregnant women and their unborn infants. Monitoring perinatal health is an essential aspect of national and global healthcare strategies as perinatal life has a critical impact on early life mortality as well as possible effects on later life health. The unpredictable nature of emerging infections and the potential for adverse perinatal outcomes necessitate that we thoroughly assess pregnancy and perinatal health implications of disease outbreaks and their public health interventions in tandem with outbreak response efforts. Disease surveillance programs should incorporate perinatal health monitoring and health systems around the world should endeavor to continuously collect perinatal health data in order to quickly update pregnancy care protocols as needed.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The perinatal health challenges of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: A narrative review

Malange

Hedermann

Lausten-Thomsen

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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“…Research shows that digital interventions, such as websites, short videos, and computer games, can present risk-related information more intuitively. In the vaccination intervention study for pregnant women conducted by Parsons et al (2021) [7], a dedicated animation of four minutes was created. The animation informed pregnant women about the consequences of contracting the flu, the protective efficacy of vaccination, and effectively promoted the vaccination behavior among pregnant women.…”

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Study on the Application of Behavior Change Techniques Classification

2023

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With the enrichment of behavior intervention theories, behavior change techniques have rapidly developed in recent years and have been widely applied in psychological interventions such as group counseling, individual counseling, and teaching practices for subject teachers and class advisers. Based on this foundation, the necessity of coding and classifying behavior change techniques has become increasingly prominent. This paper aims to organize and summarize a large number of existing behavior change techniques, intending to make the classification of these techniques logically scientific and provide intervention practitioners with a directional technical selection tool.

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“…Despite this qualitative study aiming to recruit a diverse range of pregnant women, the majority of women were white British, and therefore the beliefs targeted by the animation reflect the demography of the qualitative sample ( Parsons, 2019 ). A detailed description of the intervention and its development can be found elsewhere ( Parsons et al., 2021 ) but is described briefly here. Screenshots of the completed animation can be found in Supplemental Appendix 1 .…”

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Effectiveness of a Digital Intervention in Increasing Flu Vaccination–Related Risk Appraisal, Intention to Vaccinate and Vaccination Behaviour Among Pregnant Women

2022

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Background Pregnant women are at increased risk of complications from flu, but uptake of flu vaccination is below 75% targets. Evidence suggests that changing illness risk appraisals may increase vaccination behaviour. In 2018–2019, researchers, public health specialists, and pregnant women co-designed a short animation targeting (unhelpful) beliefs underlying pregnant women’s flu risk appraisals aiming to promote vaccination uptake. Aims This study aimed to examine effectiveness of a digital intervention (animation) in increasing flu vaccination among pregnant women through changing illness risk appraisals. Method A prospective study design was used, involving convenience sampling of unvaccinated pregnant women recruited via a Qualtrics Online Panel. Participants received small payments via the panel for survey completion. Risk appraisals and intention to vaccinate were measured at baseline and immediately after intervention presentation (follow-up one). Six months later, a further survey (follow-up two) was administered measuring vaccination behaviour. Results Baseline and first follow-up surveys were completed by 411 participants. Watching the animation led to increased appraisals of likelihood of getting flu while pregnant and severity of flu during pregnancy, and increased intentions to accept flu vaccination during pregnancy. Of the 67 respondents who completed follow-up survey two, 38 reported having the vaccination while pregnant. Conclusions This study provides evidence supporting the promise of the intervention. Randomized controlled trials are required to produce definitive efficacy evidence. Should such a study prove intervention effectiveness, it could be readily embedded within existing campaigns at national and local levels by public health organizations.

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The development of a digital intervention to increase influenza vaccination amongst pregnant women

Cited by 6 publications

References 36 publications

The perinatal health challenges of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: A narrative review

The perinatal health challenges of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: A narrative review

Study on the Application of Behavior Change Techniques Classification

Effectiveness of a Digital Intervention in Increasing Flu Vaccination–Related Risk Appraisal, Intention to Vaccinate and Vaccination Behaviour Among Pregnant Women

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