Table 2.
Responses (%) to Survey (N = 1057)
| Strongly agree | Agree | Neither agree nor disagree | Disagree | Strongly disagree | Don't know enough to comment | Refused | |
| Q1: The vaccines available are very carefully and consistently tested for safety | 16.8 | 50.3 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 0.9 | 22.9 | 0 |
| Q2: The safeguards used in making vaccines are slack and ineffective | 2.6 | 7.9 | 4.8 | 33.5 | 10.6 | 40.4 | 0.2 |
| Q3: Vaccines are amongst the most effective and least costly forms ofmedical treatment ever created | 17.2 | 41.5 | 4.5 | 8.6 | 1.1 | 26.6 | 0.4 |
| Q4: I don't really know what a vaccine is and how it works | 2.6 | 19.4 | 3.2 | 43.8 | 23.8 | 6.9 | 0.2 |
| Q5: A vaccine is a medical treatment in which dangerous viruses and bacteria are killed or modified and then put into your body | 12.6 | 45.3 | 3.4 | 9.7 | 2.2 | 26.6 | 0.2 |
| Q6: The reason vaccines are given regularly to children is that they result in lifelong protection from several serious diseases | 34.9 | 48.9 | 3.3 | 5.3 | 1.2 | 6.3 | 0 |
| Q7: A vaccine can give you a serious case of the very same disease you're trying to avoid | 4.9 | 24.7 | 7.4 | 31.0 | 8.6 | 23.2 | 0.2 |
| Q8: The government should invest more money in the development of vaccines for serious diseases like AIDS, Hepatitis, and Cancer | 46.8 | 40.0 | 2.6 | 4.5 | 1.0 | 4.8 | 0.2 |
| Q9: The idea of taking a newly developed vaccine, even if it has been carefully safety tested, makes me very anxious | 8.8 | 33.8 | 8.2 | 30.7 | 8.8 | 9.5 | 0.3 |
| Q10: Vaccines have, over the years, produced many more health benefits than health troubles | 33.6 | 45.8 | 3.4 | 4.4 | 0.6 | 12.3 | 0 |
| Q11: An increasing number of people are becoming anti-vaccine oriented as more information about vaccines and how they are developed is available over the Internet | 5.7 | 27.1 | 8.8 | 16.0 | 2.8 | 39.3 | 0.4 |
| Q12: Those people who take anti-vaccine positions are highly prejudiced and ill-informed, scientifically | 10.2 | 28.3 | 7.7 | 21.9 | 6.0 | 25.4 | 0.7 |
| Q13: In view of the international situation and the risks of bioterrorism, I would readily take an anthrax vaccine | 20.2 | 45.2 | 4.5 | 15.8 | 2.9 | 10.9 | 0.5 |
| Q14: In view of the international situation and the risks of bioterrorism, I would readily take a smallpox vaccine | 15.5 | 35.1 | 7.4 | 21.3 | 6.1 | 14.2 | 0.4 |
| Q15: In view of the international situation and the risks of bioterrorism, I would readily take whatever vaccine was promoted by the national government and its medical advisors | 15.2 | 40.6 | 9.6 | 20.5 | 4.5 | 9.2 | 0.4 |
| Q16: I intend to take an influenza vaccine this year, or I have already done so | 21.3 | 24.3 | 4.3 | 34.2 | 11.4 | 4.0 | 0.6 |
| Q17: If it were available, I would readily take a vaccine to prevent HIV-AIDS | 31.6 | 5.6 | 5.2 | 15.6 | 4.8 | 6.6 | 0.6 |
| Q18: If it were available, I would readily take a vaccine to prevent Hepatitis C | 26.2 | 46.4 | 5.5 | 9.2 | 1.9 | 10.6 | 0.3 |
| Q19: I have religious beliefs that prevent me from taking vaccines | 0.6 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 54.4 | 46.5 | 2.5 | 0.6 |
| Q20: I don't really know why I received vaccines as a child | 5.2 | 18.4 | 2.1 | 41.5 | 25.3 | 6.4 | 1.0 |