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. 2023 Apr 1;23:628. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-15334-2

Table 2.

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

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

* p-value by χ2 independence tests