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Older People's Preventive Care Utilization

RecruitingNAAges 70 Years - anyAllThe University of Hong Kong
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In plain words

What the trial is, and whether it could suit you

Objectives: To empower older people's decision making for taking the recommended vaccines including seasonal influenza vaccines, pneumococcal vaccines, and COVID-19 vaccine (if it is recommended annually). Hypotheses to be tested: The interventions designed using Mental Models Approach and Patient Activation Approach will promote older people's confidence in knowledge and skills regarding vaccination decisions, perceived self-efficacy in self-management of health, positive emotional engagement with vaccination decisions and a positive future time perspective which will subsequently promote their uptake of the recommended vaccines. Design and subjects: This will be a two-arm randomized control trial. Subjects will be community-dwelling older people aged 70 years or above. Instruments: A questionnaire will be used to collect baseline data before the interventions and follow-up data 1 mo

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๐Ÿ“‹ Eligibility rules (as published)
Inclusion Criteria: * Community-dwelling older persons aged 70 years who did not persistently receive seasonal influenza vaccine over the past three years (2020-2022) and/or have never received the pneumococcal vaccine (one dose of the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (23vPPV) or the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13)). * Being able to communicate with Cantonese, or Mandarin (the two main spoken language in Hong Kong) and being able to read Chinese. * Inclusion criteria for the informant include age above 18 and can understand Cantonese or Mandarin Exclusion Criteria: * having psychiatric disorders, dementia, or other cognitive difficulties which impede communication or understanding of the intervention and having functional disabilities which impede access to health care services. * subjects who had medical contraindications for immunization.
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What it tests

  • MMA and patient activation intervention scheme
  • Control Group
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Where

1 site
School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
๐Ÿค Taking part is your choice, and you can leave at any time. Only the trial team can confirm you are eligible โ€” always decide together with your own doctor.
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