Trusted Gossip - Full Immunization up 11.8%

Tue, 10/25/2022 - 08:43

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Strategy researched

An intervention involving: key “seeds” in the community and their “trusted gossip”; small incentives (mobile credit); and phone reminders

Impact achieved

11.8% increase in the number of children fully immunized & 1.6 additional children fully immunized every month.

Country of study

India

Research methodology

RCT - 7 districts; 2,359 villages

Journal

International Initiative for Impact Evaluation Report; 2020

Journal paper title and link

Evaluating the impact of interventions to improve full immunisation rates in Haryana, India

Excerpt from Main Results

"We find an 11.8 per cent increase in the number of children who are fully immunised. Looking at the results separately by vaccine, we see that this reflects an increase in number for each of the five vaccines in the EPI package, but particularly for measles-1, where we see a 14.2 per cent increase..."

Summary at this link

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