使用行为洞察力,以增加在低资源环境中对儿童疫苗接种的需求:黎巴嫩一项随机对照试验的证据
Ali Osseiran1, Fadi Makki2, Aya Haidar1
1Nudge Lebanon, Beirut, Lebanon.
SAGE open medicine
|October 9, 2023
概括
一项行为干预措施在黎巴嫩的低覆盖地区增加了儿童疫苗接种率6.7个百分点. 这种方法帮助超过390名额外的儿童接种救命疫苗,证明了行为改变技术在公共卫生计划中的影响.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 行为科学 行为科学
- 疫苗学 疫苗学 疫苗学
背景情况:
- 黎巴嫩因贫困增加和大量难民人口而面临国家免疫计划的挑战,导致某些地区的疫苗接种率较低.
- 实施了加速免疫活动 (AIA) 以提高儿童接种疫苗的需求,但在难民和东道社区取得了有限的成功.
- 疫苗接种覆盖率较低的地区持续存在,需要对潜在障碍和有效干预措施进行调查.
研究的目的:
- 确定阻碍低覆盖率地区家庭接种儿童疫苗的障碍.
- 评估旨在解决疫苗接种的社会,感知和认知障碍的行为改变干预措施的有效性.
主要方法:
- 使用混合方法的方法,包括利益相关者采访和现场观察,以确定家庭中未接种或未接种疫苗的儿童的疫苗接种障碍.
- 进行了一项集群随机试验,以评估视觉规划辅助工具与五种行为改变技术 (推动) 对疫苗接种的影响.
- 招聘发生在7个覆盖率较低的地区,涉及6160个家庭,其中有12,332名儿童.
主要成果:
- 干预导致对照家庭的疫苗接种率为13.5%,治疗家庭的疫苗接种率为20.2%.
- 这意味着与对照组相比,治疗家庭中接种疫苗的可能性增加了6.7个百分点.
- 这项行为干预措施为至少390名额外的儿童提供了救生疫苗.
结论:
- 将行为洞察纳入疫苗接种计划对于改善疫苗接种至关重要,特别是在资源有限的环境中.
- 改变行为干预措施可以有效地克服儿童接种疫苗的障碍,并增加获得基本免疫的机会.
- 该研究强调了有针对性的战略的重要性,以确保公平的疫苗接种和保护弱势群体.
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