{"id":58191,"date":"2016-03-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-pharmacy-professor-partners-with-political-scientists-to-get-word-out-on-pneumococcal-disease-vaccinations\/"},"modified":"2016-03-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T00:00:00","slug":"uri-pharmacy-professor-partners-with-political-scientists-to-get-word-out-on-pneumococcal-disease-vaccinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/uri-pharmacy-professor-partners-with-political-scientists-to-get-word-out-on-pneumococcal-disease-vaccinations\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 pharmacy professor partners with political scientists to get word out on pneumococcal disease vaccinations"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 23, 2016 — Political science isn\u2019t a field that comes to mind when clinicians are trying to convince adult members of the minority community to get vaccinated against pneumococcal infections, which include pneumonia and bloodstream infections.<\/p>\n


\nBut for 溏心vlog免费B站 Pharmacy Professor Kerry LaPlante the connection is clear. She is working with 溏心vlog免费B站 Political Science Professor Brian Krueger, chair of political science, and Associate Professor Marc Hutchison on a $606,173 research grant to develop science-based messages to improve pneumococcal vaccination rates in black and Hispanic\/Latino populations.<\/p>\n


\nWorking with 溏心vlog免费B站 Pharmacy Assistant Professor Aisling Caffrey, 溏心vlog免费B站 Clinical Pharmacy Professor Kelly Orr, and colleagues Haley Morrill, doctor of pharmacy at the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Jennifer DeAngelis, coordinator of LaPlante\u2019s research program. The team will create a national survey to identify the ingrained attitudes, apathy, and possible misconceptions that lead older minority adults to put off vaccination. They will use their findings to craft and test communication to overcome these barriers. <\/p>\n


\nHutchison and Krueger bring extensive experience in survey design and analysis to the project. \u201cThe core of this work is their expertise in surveying,\u201d says principal investigator LaPlante. <\/p>\n


\nWith nearly 4 million illnesses and 22,000 deaths from invasive pneumococcal disease each year, lack of vaccination participation is a public health issue with far-reaching impact\u2014particularly among black and Hispanic\/Latino populations, where pneumococcal vaccination rates among adults older than 65 are low (in 2013, coverage was 48.7 percent and 39.2 percent respectively, versus 63.6 percent among whites), despite a higher prevalence of risk factors.<\/p>\n


\nThough previous findings suggest attitudes and beliefs that may contribute to this disparity, more research is needed.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe\u2019ve learned from past literature some of the reasons why people from underrepresented communities don\u2019t get vaccinated,\u201d says Krueger. \u201cThey think vaccines don\u2019t work or that they make you sick, they don\u2019t trust doctors or the government, they can\u2019t get time off from work or don\u2019t realize vaccination is free. But we still don\u2019t know enough about how people think about adult vaccines or the barriers and cultural issues that affect their decisions. Much of the current research and press focuses on children\u2019s vaccines.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nWorking with the Rhode Island Department of Health, Krueger and Hutchison will use interviews with pharmacists and community leaders in health care to develop an initial national survey to pinpoint ingrained attitudes and beliefs that contribute to vaccine hesitancy, then create and test persuasive new messages through a second national survey. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cOur goal is to figure out who influences these populations, where their trust is, and who can help them be more active in preventative health,\u201d says LaPlante.<\/p>\n


\nBased on the survey findings, the interdisciplinary team will create and distribute English and Spanish language educational messages to selected Walgreens locations in five states, conducting pilot field studies to measure the new messages\u2019 impact on vaccination status, invasive pneumococcal disease rates and motivation to vaccinate. <\/p>\n


\nThe two-year grant, awarded by Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning and Change, builds on LaPlante\u2019s work on a recently completed $703,000 research grant from Pfizer Medical Education Group to address educational and coordination barriers for adult pneumococcal disease in Rhode Island. In addition to drawing on Krueger and Hutchison\u2019s expertise, the grant combines Caffrey\u2019s experience in infectious disease epidemiology and Orr\u2019s extensive background in community pharmacy practice and education.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThere wouldn\u2019t seem to be a logical connection between political science and pharmacy, but it\u2019s a beautiful collaboration,\u201d says LaPlante. \u201cWe are able to come together with our different expertise to solve a problem and ultimately prevent sickness and deaths from certain types of pneumonia.\u201d <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 23, 2016 — Political science isn\u2019t a field that comes to mind when clinicians are trying to convince adult members of the minority community to get vaccinated against pneumococcal infections, which include pneumonia and bloodstream infections. But for 溏心vlog免费B站 Pharmacy Professor Kerry LaPlante the connection is clear. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}