Evidence map›Paper›PMID 26829449›Full record

ArticleJournal of American college health : J of ACH

Varicella immunization requirements for US colleges: 2014-2015 academic year.

Jessica Leung, Mona Marin, Victor Leino, Susan Even, Stephanie R Bialek

Abstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of American college health : J of ACH. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jessica Leunga National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta , Georgia , USA.
Mona Marina National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta , Georgia , USA.
Victor Leinob American College Health Association , Hanover , Maryland , USA.
Susan Evenb American College Health Association , Hanover , Maryland , USA.
Stephanie R Bialeka National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta , Georgia , USA.

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo obtain information on varicella prematriculation requirements in US colleges for undergraduate students during the 2014-2015 academic year.

participantsHealth care professionals and member schools of the American College Health Association (ACHA).

methodsAn electronic survey was sent to ACHA members regarding school characteristics and whether schools had policies in place requiring that students show proof of 2 doses of varicella vaccination for school attendance.

resultsOnly 27% (101/370) of schools had a varicella prematriculation requirement for undergraduate students. Only 68% of schools always enforced this requirement. Private schools, 4-year schools, northeastern schools, those with <5,000 students, and schools located in a state with a 2-dose varicella vaccine mandate were significantly more likely to have a varicella prematriculation requirement.

conclusionsA small proportion of US colleges have a varicella prematriculation requirement for varicella immunity. College vaccination requirements are an important tool for controlling varicella in these settings.

Indexed as

Health PolicyChickenpoxChickenpox VaccineDisease OutbreaksHumansMandatory ProgramsStudentsUnited StatesUniversitiesVaccinationChickenpox VaccineChickenpoxcollegeimmunizationvaccinationvaricella

Identifiers

PMID26829449
PMCPMC5757374

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.