Table 3.
Association of socio-demographic and personal characteristics with awareness and uptake of the shingles vaccine among the study participants.
| Studied variables | Awareness of HZ vaccine | Received HZ vaccine | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aware (N = 109) | Not aware (N = 91) | Yes (N = 43) | No (N = 157) | |
| Age (yr) | ||||
| 18–30 | 18 (40.9%) ᵃ | 26 (59.1%) ᵃ | 4 (9.1%) ᵃ | 40 (90.9%) ᵇ |
| 31–40 | 15 (48.4%) ᵃ | 16 (51.6%) ᵃ | 1 (3.2%) ᵃ | 30 (96.8%) ᵇ |
| 41–50 | 28 (50.0%) ᵃ | 28 (50.0%) ᵃ | 15 (26.8%) ᵃ | 41 (73.2%) ᵃ |
| >50 | 48 (69.6%) ᵃ | 21 (30.4%) ᵇ | 23 (33.3%) ᵃ | 46 (66.7%) ᵇ |
| P-value | .015* | .001* | ||
| Sex | ||||
| Female | 55 (56.1%) | 43 (43.9%) | 17 (17.3%) | 81 (82.7%) |
| Male | 54 (52.9%) | 48 (47.1%) | 26 (25.5%) | 76 (74.5%) |
| P-value | .652 | .161 | ||
| Nationality | ||||
| Saudi | 100 (55.2%) | 81 (44.8%) | 38 (20.9%) | 143 (79.1%) |
| Non-Saudi | 9 (47.4%) | 10 (52.6%) | 5 (26.3%) | 14 (73.7%) |
| P-value | .512 | .565FE | ||
| Marital status | ||||
| Married | 69 (50.7%) ᵃ | 67 (49.3%) ᵃ | 32 (23.5%) | 104 (76.5%) |
| Widowed | 12 (70.6%) ᵃ | 5 (29.4%) ᵃ | 5 (29.4%) | 12 (70.6%) |
| Divorced | 12 (92.3%) ᵃ | 1 (7.7%) ᵇ | 4 (30.8%) | 9 (69.2%) |
| Single | 16 (47.1%) ᵃ | 18 (52.9%) ᵃ | 2 (5.9%) | 32 (94.1%) |
| P-value | .013* | .088MC | ||
| Completed educational level | ||||
| Primary education | 7 (63.6%) | 4 (36.4%) | 2 (18.2%) | 9 (81.8%) |
| Secondary education | 18 (56.3%) | 14 (43.8%) | 9 (28.1%) | 23 (71.9%) |
| University education | 29 (50.0%) | 29 (50.0%) | 15 (34.9%) | 43 (65.1%) |
| Postgraduate studies | 44 (54.3%) | 37 (45.7%) | 14 (17.3%) | 67 (82.7%) |
| Not educated | 11 (61.1%) | 7 (38.9%) | 3 (16.7%) | 15 (83.3%) |
| P-value | .878 | .622MC | ||
| Smoking status | ||||
| Current smoker | 24 (64.9%) ᵃ | 13 (35.1%) ᵃ | 8 (21.6%)ᵃ | 29 (78.4%)ᵃ |
| Ex-smoker | 22 (75.9%) ᵃ | 7 (24.1%) ᵇ | 13 (44.8%)ᵃ | 16 (55.2%)ᵇ |
| Nonsmoker | 63 (47.0%) ᵃ | 71 (53.0%) ᵇ | 22 (16.4%)ᵃ | 112 (83.6%)ᵇ |
| P-value | .007* | .003* | ||
| Presence of chronic diseases | ||||
| Yes | 68 (59.6%) | 46 (40.4%) | 31 (27.2%) | 83 (72.8%) |
| No | 41 (47.0%) | 45 (52.9%) | 12 (14.0%) | 74 (86.0%) |
| P-value | .092 | .024* | ||
Superscript letters (ᵃ, ᵇ) indicate that column proportions labeled with the same letter are not significantly different from each other at the .05 level (Bonferroni adjustment for multiple comparisons).
FE = Fischer exact test; MC = Monte Carlo test.
*
Significant P < .05.