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. 2022 Aug 3;2022(8):CD015270. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD015270

NCT04805931 (VEText).

Study name VEText message framing and COVID‐19 vaccine uptake among at‐risk veterans (VEText)
Starting date 15 March 2021
Contact information Alaina Mori, BA(206) 247‐6782, alaina.mori@va.gov
Methods 
  • Study design: randomised controlled trial

  • Type of publication: trial registration

  • Setting: Veterans Health Administration

  • Country: USA

  • Language: English

Intervention
  • Control: will receive a text message with standard messaging used to alert veterans that they are eligible for the COVID‐19 vaccine and offer scheduling embedded within the text message.

  • Intervention A: will receive a text message with a behavioural scarcity message used to alert veterans that they are eligible for the COVID‐19 vaccine and offer scheduling embedded within the text message.

  • Intervention B: will receive a text message with a behavioural social good message used to alert veterans that they are eligible for COVID‐19 vaccine and offer scheduling embedded within the text message.

Population 
  • Population: veterans.

  • Inclusion criteria: must be enrolled into VHA care; Veterans must meet age or illness institutional priority guidelines for eligibility for COVID‐19 vaccine receipt. 

Outcomes Primary outcome
  • Vaccine appointments scheduled/completed [ Time frame: 7 days post‐randomisation]

Estimated completion date and number of participants 1 November 2021 with 4311 participants
Notes Funding: VA Puget Sound Health Care System
COI: none