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Table 2 Factors associated with specific attitudes toward the HPV vaccination (France, 2016)

From: Vaccine hesitancy about the HPV vaccine among French young women and their parents: a telephone survey

 

All

Cluster 1 (40.6%) Informed supporters

Cluster 2 (23.6%) Objectors

Cluster 3 (29.2%) Uninformed supporters

Cluster 4 (6.6%) Uncertain

 

% in columns

p-value*

Gender/age

< 0.0001

 Young women

  15–19 years old

23.3

24.5

20.6

28.3

3.5

  20–25 years old

21.4

26.4

22.8

15.7

10.5

Parents of young women

Women

  26–45 years old

21.2

19.7

27.6

16.3

29.8

  > 45 years old

13.3

13.2

16.1

9.2

22.2

Men

  25–45 years old

8.6

6.8

4.9

13.4

12.4

  > 45 years old

12.1

9.4

8

17.1

21.5

Educational level:

< 0.0001

  - < high-school

42.8

30.6

41.4

57.8

56.7

  - high-school

27.1

32.4

26.3

23.6

12.1

  - up to 3 years completed at university

19.6

23

23.5

11.6

19

  - > 3 years completed at university

10.5

13.9

8.8

6.9

12.1

Household income

< 0.0001

  1-Low

44.2

38.3

44.7

52

52.4

  2-Medium

28.9

31

28.4

25.8

32.1

  3-High

20.4

23.7

22.6

14.8

17.7

  4- No answer

6.4

7.1

4.3

7.4

5.2

Favorable to vaccination:

< 0.0001

  -Strongly/Somewhat

79.0

87.6

58.8

84.8

73.2

  -Not really/Not at all

21.0

12.4

41.2

15.2

26.8

  1. * p-value by χ2 independence tests