Targeted Vaccinations: Clinic-Based Client Education

Task Force Finding*

Clinic-based client education interventions provide information to clients served in a specific medical or public health clinic setting. Examples of educational interventions include the use of small media (e.g., posters, brochures, videos, and newsletters) and group educational activities (e.g., classes or lectures).

The Task Force finds insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of clinic-based client education when implemented alone in improving influenza, pneumococcal polysaccharide, or hepatitis B vaccination coverage in high-risk adults, because only two studies, both with fair quality of execution, were identified.

*From the following publication:

Task Force for Community Preventive Services. Recommendations to improve targeted vaccination coverage among high-risk adults. [PDF - 97KB] Am J Prev Med 2005:28(5S);231-7.

Review completed: June 2002