Vaxcards: A study on the effectiveness of a collectible card game on the education and uptake of vaccination

INTERVENTION: The school children will already be undertaking the vaccination program as part of their year 7 program at their school and consent will not be sort from them to participate in the scheduled vaccination program. De‐identified, routinely collected information about returned consent forms will be provided to the investigators by Casey Council for the schools involved in the trial. The experimental group will be provided a hand out with the consent form for vaccination that will serve the purpose of the explanatory statement and consent to receive the intervention (a pack of Vaxcards) or not in a tick box to be returned with the consent forms for their routine vaccination. The pack of vaxcards contains 10 character cards that represent the disease vaccinated against in the immunization schedule and information about these diseases. The intervention will be delivered once and are intended to be kept by participants and are provided with instructions on how to play the game but not provided indications of use, they may play with the cards as they wish. There are no strategies implemented to assess/monitor adherence to the intervention. Schools participating in the vaccination program will email and mail parents and students with instructions for completing survey with explanatory statement and consent box hosted by Qualtrix CONDITION: Infection ‐ Other infectious diseases vaccination education;vaccine uptake; ; vaccination education ; vaccine uptake PRIMARY OUTCOME: Return rate of 'yes' consent form for vaccination of the groups[end of council vaccination program for 2019 to the participating schools] SECONDARY OUTCOME: quantitative survey composite data of parental knowledge, attitudes and behaviors towards vaccination. Survey used will be the validated PACV tool https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27566902 ; [after vaccination in community school vaccination program] quantitative survey composite data of student knowledge, attitudes and behaviors towards vaccination. ; Survey used will be the modified PACV tool https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25659278[after vaccination in community school vaccination program] INCLUSION CRITERIA: District of Casey council school vaccination program for year 7 students and parents of students.