Status:

COMPLETED

Impact of Pharmacist-led Educational Intervention on Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates in Cancer Patients

Lead Sponsor:

Hacettepe University

Conditions:

Pneumonia, Bacterial

Cancer

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), immunization; is defined as making a person immune or resistant to an infectious disease by applying a vaccine (1). The primary indicator of an effect...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • The study will involve patients who have all of the following features simultaneously.
  • patients who visit medical oncology outpatient clinics,
  • patients who are over 18 years old,
  • patients who have been diagnosed with cancer for less than two years,
  • patients who are in remission stage (as determined by a medical oncologist),
  • patients who have never had the pneumococcal vaccine.

Exclusion

  • patients who could not communicate in Turkish,
  • patients who were illiterate,
  • patients who had visual/auditory/cognitive impairments,
  • patients who had previously received a pneumococcal vaccine recommendation,
  • patients who did not know their pneumococcal immunization status
  • patients who want to leave the study

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

July 19 2019

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

February 15 2021

Estimated Enrollment :

228 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT05229081

Start Date

July 19 2019

End Date

February 15 2021

Last Update

February 8 2022

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Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Department of Medical Oncology

Ankara, Turkey (Türkiye), 06100