A Vaccine Communication Training Intervention for Pediatric Inpatient Clinicians

Conditions

• Preventive Health Services (PREV HEALTH SERV)

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

N/A - N/A

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• PIVOT-IN — BEHAVIORAL
  Inpatient clinicians at Seattle Children's Hospital, including nurses, advanced practice providers, and physicians, will be trained using the 'Presumptively Initiating Vaccines and Optimizing Talk for Inpatients (PIVOT-IN)' curriculum. During this training, inpatient clinicians will learn, practice, and use a presumptive format to initiate their vaccine recommendations and motivational interviewing techniques in their vaccine conversations with hospitalized patients and families.
• Standardized Vaccine Eligibility Screening — OTHER
  An electronic health record prompt to identify patients due or overdue for vaccines was activated by the hospital in September.

Study Details

This study will examine a novel stakeholder-informed intervention to identify vaccine-eligible children and promote evidence-based clinician vaccine communication with families with the goal of increasing vaccine uptake during hospitalization.

Key Dates

Start date

Apr 30, 2026

Status verified

Apr 2026

Primary completion

Dec 31, 2026

Completion

Feb 28, 2027

Study Design

Enrollment

2,000 participants (estimated)

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

SEQUENTIAL

Primary purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Arms

• No Intervention: Baseline
  Standard care was delivered to hospitalized patients. (Sept 2023-Aug 2025)
• Other: Standardized Vaccine Eligibility Screening
  An electronic health record prompt to identify patients due or overdue for vaccines was activated. (Sept 2025-Mar 2026)
• Experimental: Vaccine Communication Training
  Inpatient clinicians will be trained using the 'Presumptively Initiating Vaccines and Optimizing Talk for Inpatients (PIVOT-IN)' curriculum. (Apr 2026-Dec 2026)

Primary Outcome Measure

Percentage of vaccine-eligible hospitalized patients who receive routine childhood vaccines during hospitalization [ Time Frame: Hospital admission to discharge (up to 7 months or the intervention end date, whichever comes first) ]

Central Contacts

• Annika M Hofstetter, MD, PhD, MPH
  206-884-1699
  [email protected]
• Mersine A Bryan, MD, MPH
  [email protected]

Locations (1)

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