Table 1.

Sociodemographic and Clinical Predictors of Physician Reported Recommendation of the HPV Vaccine for Low-Income Adolescent Girls

Characteristic	Ages 9–10 Unadjusted ORs (95% CI)	Ages 11–12 Unadjusted ORs (95% CI)	Ages 13–14 Unadjusted ORs (95% CI)	Ages 15–17 Unadjusted ORs (95% CI)
Physician Age	1.01 (0.99–1.04)	0.99 (0.95–1.02)	0.96 (0.90–1.01)	0.99 (0.92–1.06)
Physician Gender
Male (reference)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Female	0.91 (0.54–1.54)	1.53 (0.71–3.27)	2.69 (0.65–11.14)	4.90 (0.77–31.17)
Physician Race
White (reference)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Other	1.68 (1.02–2.77)*	0.87 (0.43–1.78)	2.55 (0.72–8.99)	1.25 (0.30–5.18)
Physician Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic (reference)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Hispanic	1.43 (0.78–2.62)	3.19 (1.09–9.35)*	1.67 (0.30–9.29)	1.12 (0.18–7.03)
Vaccine for Children Provider
Yes (reference)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
No	1.06 (0.51–2.19)	1.44 (0.48–4.33)	2.69 (0.30–24.23)	1.83 (0.12–27.55)
Vaccine Coordinator in Office
Yes (reference)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
No	0.78 (0.35–1.73)	0.62 (0.20–1.96)	0.45 (0.05–3.97)	0.90 (0.05–13.87)
Clinical Specialty
Pediatrics (reference)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Family Medicine	1.00 (0.46–2.17)	0.13 (0.05–0.36)*	0.05 (0.01–0.26)*	0.06 (0.01–0.35)*
Obstetrics/Gynecology	3.37 (1.15–9.88)*	0.25 (0.08–0.79)*	0.37 (0.06–2.14)	0.46 (0.04–4.72)
Daily Medicaid Patients seen
Less than 15 (reference)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
15–19	1.04 (0.54–2.02)	2.11 (0.80–5.53)	1.32 (0.24–7.25)	1.44 (0.16–13.03)
20–29	1.32 (0.66–2.62)	1.21 (0.47–3.11)	0.32 (0.06–1.60)	0.23 (0.03–1.58)
30 or more	1.19 (0.57–2.46)	3.00 (0.97–9.26)	0.36 (0.05–2.58)	3.01 (0.20–44.04)
Race of Majority of Patients Seen
Non-Hispanic White (reference)	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Non-Hispanic Black	0.68 (0.33–1.42)	0.13 (0.03–0.47)*	0.32 (0.04–2.36)	0.20 (0.01–3.01)
Hispanic	1.28 (0.59–2.77)	0.27 (0.06–1.15)	0.58 (0.05–6.36)	0.29 (0.01–5.68)
Other	0.69 (0.34–1.41)	0.21 (0.06–0.75)*	0.18 (0.03–1.08)	0.14 (0.01–7.03)

^*Significant at p ≤ .05

CI, confidence interval

OR, odds ratios