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. 2024 Dec 10;22:100600. doi: 10.1016/j.jvacx.2024.100600

Table 2.

Weighted mean of Medical Mistrust Index at baseline by sociodemographic and clinical factors at baseline or follow-up, Michigan COVID-19 Recovery Surveillance Study, 2020–2023.


Medical Mistrust Index
(range = 14)
Baseline (n = 3865) Follow-Up (n = 3741)
Weighted mean (SE) p-value a Weighted mean (SE) p-value a
Positive vaccine attitudes
Importance of vaccination for people who have not had COVID-19 <0.001
 Yes 1.74 (0.01)
 No 2.10 (0.02)
Importance of vaccination for people who have had COVID-19 <0.001
 Yes 1.73 (0.01)
 No 2.07 (0.02)
Vaccination uptake <0.001
 Yes 1.80 (0.01)
 No 2.13 (0.03)
Age <0.001 <0.001
 18–34 1.92 (0.02) 1.91 (0.02)
 35–54 1.93 (0.02) 1.92 (0.02)
 55–64 1.86 (0.03) 1.86 (0.03)
 ≥65 1.72 (0.02) 1.73 (0.02)
Sex 0.930 0.339
 Male 1.89 (0.02) 1.87 (0.02)
 Female 1.89 (0.01) 1.89 (0.01)
Race and ethnicity 0.004 0.005
 Hispanic 1.94 (0.04) 1.89 (0.05)
 NH White 1.86 (0.01) 1.86 (0.01)
 NH Black 1.95 (0.04) 1.99 (0.04)
 Another NH race and ethnicity 1.97 (0.03) 1.92 (0.03)
Marital status 0.835 0.969
 Married/cohabiting 1.89 (0.01) 1.88 (0.01)
 Not married/cohabiting 1.89 (0.02) 1.88 (0.02)
Education <0.001 0.047
 High school or less 1.94 (0.02) 1.91 (0.03)
 Some college 1.92 (0.02) 1.90 (0.02)
 College graduate 1.84 (0.02) 1.85 (0.02)
Household income <0.001 0.069
 <$35,000 1.93 (0.02) 1.87 (0.02)
 $35,000–74,999 1.92 (0.02) 1.92 (0.02)
 ≥$75,000 1.83 (0.02) 1.86 (0.02)
Health insurance <0.001 0.509
 Private insurance 1.86 (0.01) 1.87 (0.01)
 Medicare/Medicaid/others 1.95 (0.02) 1.90 (0.02)
 None 1.97 (0.04) 1.91 (0.04)
Pre-existing diagnosed comorbidities 0.069 0.035
 Yes 1.87 (0.01) 1.85 (0.02)
 No 1.91 (0.02) 1.90 (0.02)
COVID-19 symptom severity 0.001 0.097
 Asymptomatic/mild 1.84 (0.02) 1.85 (0.02)
 Moderate 1.88 (0.02) 1.88 (0.02)
 Severe 1.94 (0.02) 1.93 (0.03)
 Very severe 1.98 (0.04) 1.89 (0.04)

COVID-19 = Coronavirus disease 2019; SE = Standard error; NH = non-Hispanic.

a. We conducted t-tests to test the null hypothesis that the means of subgroups are equal at baseline or follow-up.