What is the Initiative?
Unity developed the 3Cs educational program to demonstrate how healthcare providers can deliver confident, concise, and consistent (3Cs) recommendations for vaccines for adolescents ages 11-12 and 16-18, featuring:
- Presumptive, Bundled Recommendation for Tdap, HPV and MenACWY
- Shared Clinical Decision-Making Recommendation for MenB Vaccine
- Motivational Interviewing Techniques for Successful Vaccination Outcome
- Varying Levels of MenB Vaccine Acceptance by Parent
What are the Benefits?
Healthcare provider recommendations play a central role in the decision for parents and adolescents to vaccinate on time. The 3Cs program helps address these common provider challenges:
Parents and adolescents aren’t aware of what vaccines they need
Healthcare priorities compete for our attention
Parent’s and/or adolescent’s concerns can lead to prolonged discussions
Guiding cautious or hesitant parents to good vaccine decisions can be complicated
A shared clinical decision making recommendation for MenB vaccine is new for me
Responding to common questions about meningococcal vaccines confidently and concisely can be challenging
What is the Goal of The Three C's?
Our Goal is for physician practices to improve the acceptance rate for all CDC/ACIP-recommended vaccines for adolescents. We feature presumptive, bundled and equal recommendations for adolescent vaccines (Tdap, MenACWY, HPV) for well visits at age 11-12. And, since the official U.S. immunization schedule implemented a significant format change in 2017 by creating a stand-alone column for age 16 years, we also feature 16-18 year old visits addressing MenACWY booster vaccination and the shared clinical decision making recommendation for Meningococcal B vaccine.
UNITY Resources
To support strong provider recommendations for adolescent vaccines, the UNITY Consortium has developed the following resources:
As a physician, are you having trouble pushing parents to accept vaccinations for their children? This document gives some tips on motivational interviewing for hesitant or refusing parents.
