Clinical Trial: Conversations With AI Chatbots Increase Short-Term Vaccine Intentions But Do Not Outperform Standard Public Health Messaging

U.S., Aug. 21 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07132125) titled 'Conversations With AI Chatbots Increase Short-Term Vaccine Intentions But Do Not Outperform Standard Public Health Messaging' on Aug. 12.

Brief Summary: The goal of this clinical trial is to test whether short conversations with large language model (LLM) chatbots can persuade vaccine-hesitant parents to vaccinate their children against human papillomavirus (HPV). The study compares two chatbot styles to official public health information and to a no-message control. Parents of HPV-eligible children first complete a survey about their attitudes toward the HPV vaccine and their main concerns. They are then randomly assigned to read p...