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Supporting CHWs as Vaccine Educators: Impact of a Digital Training and Chatbot Intervention on Vaccination in Kenya

NCT06237374 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 795

Last updated 2024-04-16

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Summary

This study seeks to understand how to support community health workers (CHWs) to improve routine vaccination rates in high-need areas by testing a two-part intervention. The first part of the intervention is a digital training provided to CHWs, which includes videos and job aids on vaccine education to support patient communication. The second part of the intervention is a patient-facing chatbot that CHWs can share with their patients. The chatbot is designed to answer patient questions about routine immunization. The intervention will be implemented in two sub-counties in Migori County Kenya (Awendo and Nyatike) that Lwala Community Health Alliance has identified as high need with respect to vaccine education. We hypothesize that the intervention will increase knowledge about routine immunization among CHWs and patients, increase vaccine acceptance, intent-to-vaccinate, and vaccination rates among patients in the treatment group.

Conditions

  • Vaccine Knowledge
  • Vaccine Hesitancy
  • Vaccine Refusal

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Digital Vaccine Education Training & Patient-facing Chatbot Tool

The first part of the intervention is a digital training provided to CHWs, which includes videos and job aids on vaccine education to support patient communication. The second part of the intervention is a patient-facing chatbot designed to provide key information about routine immunization that CHWs can share with their patients through the social media and messenger application, WhatsApp.

BEHAVIORAL

Standard Training

All CHWs in the study will receive the standard CHW training that is provided on an ongoing basis by Lwala Community Health Alliance.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-01-16
Primary Completion
2024-03-01
Completion
2024-08-01

Countries

  • Kenya

Study Locations

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