Individual research recommendation details

Recommendation ID

NG103/1

Question

People in eligible groups:- What are the important messages and how should they be tailored and delivered to encourage and sustain flu vaccination uptake in eligible groups?

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Why this is important:- There is limited qualitative, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness evidence about what is effective in increasing flu vaccination in most eligible groups. In particular, we need to know how to tailor and deliver messages, for example, to minority ethnic communities, who may have lower vaccination uptake and also be disproportionately affected by some chronic conditions that put them at greater clinical risk from flu. A key to this is understanding how to engage people, including children and young people, and how they want to be involved in decision-making. This might include carers and other decision-makers. Interventions may need to be specifically targeted for different groups, so there is a need to understand individual and cultural health beliefs underpinning decisions about vaccination. Evidence indicates that beliefs about flu vaccination (such as effectiveness and side effects) are a persistent barrier. Understanding the key messages and the best format to deliver
them in (for example, using social media or other forms of electronic communication) to reach different groups will help to overcome these barriers. This will increase the precision with which commissioners and intervention developers can engage eligible groups and increase rates of flu vaccination.

Source guidance details

Comes from guidance

Flu vaccination: increasing uptake

Number

NG103

Date issued

August 2018

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