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The Effect of Time-Slot Scheduling on Flu Vaccination Rates

NCT01206686 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50000

Last updated 2016-08-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this project is to see if encouraging an individual to privately choose in advance a narrow time window in which to obtain a flu vaccination shot affects the likelihood that he or she will become vaccinated.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Planning Prompt

Patients were prompted to write down a planned date (and in some cases time) for receiving a flu shot.

BEHAVIORAL

Default Appointment

Patients were given a suggested date and time for receiving a flu shot.

BEHAVIORAL

Control

Patients were provided with basic information (present in all conditions) about when and where they could receive a flu shot, but they were given no further treatment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Katherine L Milkman, Ph.D. · University of Pennsylvania

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-09-30
Primary Completion
2012-07-31
Completion
2012-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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