Table 3.
Reasons for HPV vaccine decision (percentage of mothers citing each reason, n = 601)
| White (n = 149) | Indian (n = 130) | Pakistani (n = 112) | Bangladeshi (n = 45) | Caribbean (n = 74) | African (n = 61) | Chinese (n = 30) | |
| Reasons for accepting | |||||||
| Protection | 29 | 16* | 11* | 13* | 14* | 25 | 30 |
| Daughter’s health | 9 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 7 |
| General positive beliefs | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Benefits | 5 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| Availability | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| There is a necessity | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Responsibility | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Peace of mind | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Reasons for not accepting | |||||||
| More information needed | 16 | 12 | 21 | 44* | 18 | 10 | 20 |
| Sex-related reasons | 2 | 15* | 20* | 4 | 16 | 5 | 10 |
| Safety/side-effects | 7 | 12 | 6 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
| Religion/culture | 5 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
| No necessity | 0 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Age-related reasons | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Trust | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Discuss with family | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Bold type represents when a 2×2 χ2 was used to analyse the difference in that ethnic group compared with the white British group. Where figures are not in bold type, it was not possible to compute χ2 results because more than 20% of cells in the analysis had a count of less than 5.
* p<0.05.