Digital Storytelling to Reduce Pediatric Influenza Vaccination Disparities
While the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted health disparities, Black children have unduly suffered and died from seasonal influenza for decades. Through sustained partnership with Black community stakeholders, novel community-engaged research methods, and an innovative intervention approach, this proposal will explore, develop, and test a Digital Storytelling intervention to reduce influenza vaccination disparities in Black children aged 6 months to 5 years. This project will advance our understanding of engagement methods and interventions that improve health equity and serve as a model for future work to address vaccination disparities, ensuring all individuals have the chance to fulfill their potential free of preventable diseases.
- EligibilityCriteria: Inclusion Criteria:  Caregivers of a child who is empaneled at Denver Health (e.g. had 1 well child visit in last 18 months) Child will be aged 6 months to 5 years during the influenza season in which the trial will be conducted (season 1: 10/1/24-3/31/25; season 2 (if needed): 10/1/25-3/31/26) Child has no medical contraindications to vaccination (e.g., severe allergy to one of the vaccine ingredients, history of Guillan-Barre Syndrome)  Exclusion Criteria:  - Caregivers whose first language is not English - HealthyVolunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers - Gender: All - MinimumAge: 18 Years - MaximumAge: 90 Years - StdAgeList: Adult, Older Adult