Engaging Staff to Improve COVID-19 Vaccination Response at Long-Term Care Facilities
Purpose
The ENSPIRE study is a cluster-randomized comparative effectiveness trial being conducted within long-term care and residential facilities that will test a communication and engagement strategy for increasing COVID-19 booster vaccination rates against an enhanced usual care comparator (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or other national organization vaccine education and communication materials) among facility staff. The communication and engagement strategy being tested includes (1) the development of materials co-designed with and tailored to facility staff whose primary language is a language other than English or who are from certain cultural affinity groups and (2) the distribution of the developed materials by members of the language/cultural affinity groups with peer advocacy activities (full intervention). The study is being conducted in Washington state and Georgia. Long-term care/residential facilities will be asked to furnish their staff booster rate at 4 timepoints: pre-intervention, and one month (timepoint 1), 3 months (timepoint 2), and 6 months (timepoint 3) post-intervention. Staff at participating long-term care facilities will be invited to complete three online surveys at 3 timepoints: pre-intervention, 3 months post-intervention and 6 months post-intervention. Long-term care facilities will be randomized to a trial arm following the pre-intervention data collection.
Condition
- COVID-19
Eligibility
- Eligible Ages
- Over 18 Years
- Eligible Genders
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- Works at a participating long-term care facility that has more than 50 staff members, has a staff COVID-19 booster vaccination rate of ≤60% as of December 1, 2021, and is located in Washington state or Georgia. - 18 years or older
Exclusion Criteria
- Does not work at an enrolled long-term care facility - 17 years or younger
Study Design
- Phase
- N/A
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel Assignment
- Primary Purpose
- Other
- Masking
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Arm Groups
Arm | Description | Assigned Intervention |
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Active Comparator Enhanced Usual Care |
Distribution of COVID-19 vaccine promotion materials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] or other national organization with limited distribution support at long-term care centers. |
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Experimental Full Intervention |
Development of materials co-designed with and tailored to language/cultural affinity groups and distributed with assistance from co-design participants who will serve as peer advocates. |
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Recruiting Locations
More Details
- NCT ID
- NCT05449418
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Sponsor
- Kaiser Permanente