Step Four: Report Findings and Identify Solutions
Report Findings
After collecting and analyzing data, report findings to the communities of focus and identified stakeholders. Discuss and prioritize solutions. This is the most important community-assessment step because the goal is to engage and build relationships.
Tips for reporting findings:
- Create a user-friendly report.
- Consider both format and literacy level.
- Do not include names or descriptors that could identify who said what, especially in small communities.
- Use general descriptors to attribute verbatim quotes, such as “pediatrician, private practice” or “elementary school parent.”
Suggestions for Reporting Assessment Findings
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Identify Solutions
Effective solutions will:
- Increase trust in COVID-19 vaccines.
- Establish or solidify getting vaccinated as a social norm.
- Motivate or encourage people to get the vaccine.
- Improve physical access to the vaccine.
Strategic thinking on the questions can help to identify solutions:
- What are the main barriers affecting your community of focus’s willingness or ability to be vaccinated?
- What, if anything, is already being done to address barriers to COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake? How effective are these efforts, and where is there room to improve?
- Which issues can be more easily addressed than others?
Other factors to consider when considering solutions to implement and evaluate:
- Importance/expected impact
- Feasibility
- Scalability
- Sustainability
Potential solutions to address COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake:
- Education campaigns
- On-site vaccination (workplaces, schools, faith-based institutions)
- Cash or non-cash incentives
- Free/affordable vaccination services
- Institutional and/or provider recommendation
- Reminder and recall
- Message framing
- Vaccine champions
Examples of Evidence-Based Solutions to Increase Vaccine Confidence and Uptakepdf icon provides a list of solutions/interventions based on scientific review of current literature to address the specific issues identified by the rapid community assessment.
In addition, consider approaches such as motivational interviewing, peer-to-peer engagement, or education through entertainment, storytelling, and other narrative methods that may not be well-reflected in current literature or evidence-based approaches but may be identified by your communities of focus as a potential new way to increase vaccine confidence and uptake.