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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | FluMum: a prospective cohort study of mother-infant pairs assessing the effectiveness of maternal influenza vaccination in revention of influenza in early infancy |
Author: | O'Grady, K.A.F. McHugh, L. Nolan, T. Richmond, P. Wood, N. Marshall, H.S. Lambert, S.B. Chatfield, M. Andrews, R.M. |
Citation: | BMJ Open, 2014; 4(6):e005676-1-e005676-6 |
Publisher: | BMJ Publishing Group |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
ISSN: | 2044-6055 2044-6055 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Kerry-Ann F O'Grady, Lisa McHugh, Terry Nolan, Peter Richmond, Nicholas Wood, Helen S Marshall, Stephen B Lambert, Mark Chatfield, Ross M Andrews |
Abstract: | INTRODUCTION: Influenza vaccination in pregnancy is recommended for all women in Australia, particularly those who will be in their second or third trimester during the influenza season. However, there has been no systematic monitoring of influenza vaccine uptake among pregnant women in Australia. Evidence is emerging of benefit to the infant with respect to preventing influenza infection in the first 6 months of life. The FluMum study aims to systematically monitor influenza vaccine uptake during pregnancy in Australia and determine the effectiveness of maternal vaccination in preventing laboratory-confirmed influenza in their offspring up to 6 months of age. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: A prospective cohort study of 10 106 mother-infant pairs recruited between 38 weeks gestation and 55 days postdelivery in six Australian capital cities. Detailed maternal and infant information is collected at enrolment, including influenza illness and vaccination history with a follow-up data collection time point at infant age 6 months. The primary outcome is laboratory-confirmed influenza in the infant. Case ascertainment occurs through searches of Australian notifiable diseases data sets once the infant turns 6 months of age (with parental consent). The primary analysis involves calculating vaccine effectiveness against laboratory-confirmed influenza by comparing the incidence of influenza in infants of vaccinated mothers to the incidence in infants of unvaccinated mothers. Secondary analyses include annual and pooled estimates of the proportion of mothers vaccinated during pregnancy, the effectiveness of maternal vaccination in preventing hospitalisation for acute respiratory illness and modelling to assess the determinants of vaccination. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The study was approved by all institutional Human Research Ethics Committees responsible for participating sites. Study findings will be published in peer review journals and presented at national and international conferences. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: The study is registered with the Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR) number: 12612000175875. |
Keywords: | Humans Influenza Vaccines Treatment Outcome Prenatal Care Cohort Studies Prospective Studies Mothers Pregnancy Research Design Infant Infant, Newborn Australia Female Influenza, Human |
Description: | Published 24 June 2014 |
Rights: | This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work noncommercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
DOI: | 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005676 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1020035 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005676 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 3 Paediatrics publications |
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