SynthesisBMJ open2022
Use of community engagement interventions to improve child immunisation in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
- Community Engagement in Vaccination Promotion: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Pooled it
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- Effect of community engagement interventions on child health care utilization: a quasi-experimental study in Afar and Benishangul Gumuz Regions, Ethiopia.BMC public health · 2026Article
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- Scoping Review of the Socioeconomic Value of Working Equids, and the Impact of Educational Interventions Aimed at Improving Their Welfare.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Review
- Community engagement for vaccine delivery in low- and middle-income countries and humanitarian settings: A scoping umbrella review.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Building trust and equity in vaccine communication through community engagement.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025Review
- Variations in Routine Childhood Vaccination Gaps: A Decomposition Analysis Across 80 Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Vaccines · 2025Article
- Review
- Multilevel Analysis of Zero-Dose Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Three Delays Model Study.Vaccines · 2025Article
- High immunisation coverage but sporadic outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases: the structural gaps in vaccination uptake in central highlands, Vietnam.BMC public health · 2025Article
- An evidence-based model to promote community engagement in health intervention research: the Quiet 4 Healthy Farm experience.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Creating cohesive communities: using Conditional-Collective-Community-Based Incentives to change social norms on polio immunization in Pakistan.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Evidence needs and community involvement in policy decisions for vaccine-preventable diarrhoeal infections among children under the age of five years: Stakeholder engagement in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Malawi.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Implementation science research to understand the readiness of a mobile clinic intervention to screen for high-risk HPV infections and associated morbidity in Mali and Nigeria.Journal of global health economics and policy · 2025Article
- Changes of influenza vaccination rate and associated influencing factors after the COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai, China.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2024Article
- Using qualitative systems mapping to analyze the linkages between the behavioral and social (BeSD) determinants of routine childhood immunization in LMICs.BMC public health · 2024Review
- Analyzing the usage of theories of change for routine immunization programs -- a review of impact evaluations from LMICs.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2024Review
- Interventions addressing routine childhood immunization and its behavioral and social drivers.Frontiers in public health · 2024Review
- Characterizing provider-led adaptations to mobile phone delivery of the Adolescent Transition Package (ATP) in Kenya using the Framework for Reporting Adaptations and Modifications to Evidence-based Implementation Strategies (FRAME-IS): a mixed methods approach.Implementation science communications · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo support evidence informed decision-making, we systematically examine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of community engagement interventions on routine childhood immunisation outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) and identify contextual, design and implementation features associated with effectiveness.
designMixed-methods systematic review and meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES: 21 databases of academic and grey literature and 12 additional websites were searched in May 2019 and May 2020. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR SELECTING STUDIES: We included experimental and quasi-experimental impact evaluations of community engagement interventions considering outcomes related to routine child immunisation in LMICs. No language, publication type, or date restrictions were imposed. DATA EXTRACTION AND SYNTHESIS: Two independent researchers extracted summary data from published reports and appraised quantitative risk of bias using adapted Cochrane tools. Random effects meta-analysis was used to examine effects on the primary outcome, full immunisation coverage.
resultsOur search identified over 43 000 studies and 61 were eligible for analysis. The average pooled effect of community engagement interventions on full immunisation coverage was standardised mean difference 0.14 (95% CI 0.06 to 0.23, I
conclusionCommunity engagement interventions are successful in improving outcomes related to routine child immunisation. The findings are robust to exclusion of studies assessed as high risk of bias.
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