Table 2.

Parents’ and sons’ attitudes toward vaccine consent and vaccination days

	Parents, mean (SD)	Sons, mean (SD)	p
Vaccine consent
Age when vaccination should be permissible without parent’s permission	18 (1.67)	17 (2.08)	<.001
Son may refuse vaccination despite parent’s desire	3.31 (1.05)	3.25 (1.02)	.47
Willingness to vaccinate at school …
if other students may see	3.38 (1.14)	2.90 (1.11)	<.001
without parent present	2.74 (1.24)	2.94 (1.21)	.04
with parent present	3.33 (1.09)	3.31 (1.13)	.80

Analyses are for 216 parents and sons who both completed the survey, except for the permissible age item (n = 213). Response scale for variables other than age ranged from “strongly disagree” or “definitely not willing” (coded as 1) to “strongly agree” or “definitely willing” (coded as 5).

SD = standard deviation.