Trial reportBMC family practice2011
Effect of an audiovisual message for tetanus booster vaccination broadcast in the waiting room.
Trial report in BMC family practice, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03239795 (Promoting Influenza Vaccination In General Practice Waiting Rooms By Posters And Pamphlets), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Promoting Influenza Vaccination In General Practice Waiting Rooms By Posters And Pamphlets: A Registry Based Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Audiovisual aids in primary healthcare settings' waiting rooms. A systematic review.The European journal of general practice · 2018Pooled it
- Patient reminder and recall interventions to improve immunization rates.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Pilot of a Community Health Worker Video Intervention for Immigrant Day Laborers at Occupational Health Risk.Frontiers in public health · 2021Trial
- Randomized controlled trial on promoting influenza vaccination in general practice waiting rooms.PloS one · 2018Trial
- Social persuasion in rheumatology: a randomized trial of testimonials on television in the rheumatology clinic waiting room to increase attendance for multidisciplinary education.Rheumatology international · 2014Trial
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- Do health service waiting areas contribute to the health literacy of consumers? A scoping review.Health promotion international · 2023Article
- A Clinical Preventive Strategy Based on a Digital Tool to Improve Access to Endocrine Disruptors Exposure Prevention: The MEDPREVED Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- "I would not go to him": Focus groups exploring community responses to a public health campaign aimed at reducing unnecessary diagnostic imaging of low back pain.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2021Article
- Video intervention for the psychiatric waiting room: proof-of-concept randomised controlled trial of RESOLVE (Relaxation Exercise, SOLVing problem and cognitive Errors).BJPsych open · 2019Article
- Patient and clinician engagement with health information in the primary care waiting room: A mixed methods case study.Journal of public health research · 2019Article
- Effectiveness of health education materials in general practice waiting rooms: a cross-sectional study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2018Article
- Television-based health promotion in general practice waiting rooms in London: a cross-sectional study evaluating patients' knowledge and intentions to access dental services.BMC oral health · 2016Article
- The waiting room: vector for health education? The general practitioner's point of view.BMC research notes · 2012Article
- Making the most of the waiting room: Electronic patient engagement, a mixed methods study.Digital healthArticle
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundGeneral practitioners (GPs) often lack time and resources to invest in health education; audiovisual messages broadcast in the waiting room may be a useful educational tool. This work was designed to assess the effect of a message inviting patients to ask for a tetanus booster vaccination.
methodsA quasi experimental study was conducted in a Belgian medical practice consisting of 6 GPs and 4 waiting rooms (total: 20,000 contacts/year). A tetanus booster vaccination audiovisual message was continuously broadcast for 6 months in 2 randomly selected waiting rooms (intervention group--3 GPs) while the other 2 waiting rooms remained unequipped (control group--3 GPs). At the end of the 6-month period, the number of vaccine adult-doses delivered by local pharmacies in response to GPs' prescriptions was recorded. As a reference, the same data were also collected retrospectively for the general practice during the same 6-month period of the previous year.
resultsDuring the 6-month reference period where no audiovisual message was broadcast in the 4 waiting rooms, the number of prescriptions presented for tetanus vaccines was respectively 52 (0.44%) in the intervention group and 33 (0.38%) in the control group (p = 0.50). By contrast, during the 6-month study period, the number of prescriptions differed between the two groups (p < 0.0001), rising significantly to 91 (0.79%) in the intervention group (p = 0.0005) while remaining constant in the control group (0.38% vs 0.39%; p = 0.90).
conclusionsBroadcasting an audiovisual health education message in the GPs' waiting room was associated with a significant increase in the number of adult tetanus booster vaccination prescriptions delivered by local pharmacies.
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