通过短信提醒来加强老年人中的COVID-19增强疫苗接种
Yi-Cheng Lee1, Bing-Hau Lee1,2, Yi-Hsuan Lin1
1Department of Family Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics
|July 17, 2024
概括
短信文本提醒在老年人中显著提高了COVID-19增强疫苗接种率. 使用短信文本提醒程序促进老年门诊患者的提升提升率增加了38%,证明了有效的公共卫生战略.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 老年学是指老年学的学科.
- 卫生沟通 卫生沟通
背景情况:
- 在老年人群中,低的COVID-19增强疫苗接种率构成了重大的公共卫生挑战.
- 健康信念模型 (HBM) 提供了一个理解健康行为,包括疫苗接种决定的框架.
- 需要有针对性的干预措施来克服障碍,并促进老年人接种疫苗.
研究的目的:
- 评估短信短信提醒在提高老年患者COVID-19增强疫苗接种率方面的有效性.
- 评估使用短信文本提醒 (BOOST) 程序促进老年门诊患者使用短信文本提醒的影响.
- 在老年人群中探索响应SMS提醒的预测因素.
主要方法:
- 这是一项队列研究,涉及台北退伍军人总医院65岁及以上的3,500名符合条件的患者.
- 在预定COVID-19增剂疫苗接种预约前一周发送了个性化SMS文本提醒.
- 考克斯回归分析被用来确定接种疫苗的重要预测因素.
主要成果:
- 在五周内,BOOST计划实现了COVID-19强剂疫苗接种率的38%增加.
- 这一增长率远远超过了研究期间同一个人口群体的全国增长率4%.
- 当最后一剂疫苗接种后四个月内发送提醒时,接种疫苗的比例最高,其中一个提醒被证明有效.
结论:
- 短信文本提醒是促进老年人接种COVID-19疫苗的可行和有效策略.
- 在HBM原则的指导下,BOOST计划通过解决感知到的障碍和好处,成功地提高了接种疫苗的普及率.
- 这种方法为公共卫生沟通提供了一个可扩展的解决方案,以提高老年人免疫率.
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