Table 5:
Pre-pandemic Selected Variables | p-value | Post-pandemic Selected Variables | p-value | |
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It is best to avoid all vaccinations while pregnant. | Doctor ever discussed vaccination during pregnancy | <.0001 | Doctor ever discussed vaccination during pregnancy | <.0001 |
Ever received influenza vaccine | Received influenza | <.0001 | ||
Received influenza vaccine every year | <.0001 | Vaccine every year | ||
Pregnant women are at higher risk of severe illness from influenza than women who are not pregnant | Education | 0.0024 | None | None |
Race | 0.0383 | |||
Attended pre-natal | 0.0008 | |||
class | ||||
It is safer to wait until after the first 3 months of pregnancy to receive an influenza vaccine | Attended pre-natal class | 0.0088 | Education | 0.0018 |
Doctor ever discussed vaccination during pregnancy | 0.0008 | Physician considers Pregnancy high risk | 0.0105 | |
At least one pre-existing condition* | 0.0462 | At least one Pre-existing condition* | 0.0103 | |
Received influenza vaccine ever year | 0.0094 | |||
Healthy pregnant women do not require influenza vaccine | Doctor ever discussed vaccination during pregnancy | <.0001 | Received influenza vaccine ever year | <.0001 |
Received influenza vaccine every year | <.0001 | |||
Pregnant women who receive influenza vaccine are more likely to experience side effects from the vaccine than women who are not pregnant | Education | 0.0305 | Race | 0.0169 |
Health care provider | 0.0161 | Health care provider | 0.0132 | |
Doctor ever discussed vaccine during pregnancy | <.0001 | Received influenza vaccine ever year | 0.0028 | |
Ever received influenza vaccine | 0.0047 | |||
Received influenza vaccine every year | 0.0006 | |||
Giving influenza vaccine to pregnant women will help protect newborn babies from getting influenza | Primary source of information about vaccines | 0.0092 | None | None |
Influenza vaccine poses greater risk to healthy children than natural influenza infection | Education | <.0001 | Race | 0.0361 |
Primary source of Information about | 0.0070 | Health care provider | 0.0127 | |
Doctor ever discussed vaccine during pregnancy | <.0001 | Received influenza vaccine ever year | 0.0025 | |
Received influenza vaccine every year | 0.04 | |||
It is important that all children in the household are vaccinated against influenza to protect new born babies | Age | 0.0234 | Received influenza vaccine ever year | 0.0106 |
Doctor ever discussed vaccination | 0.0036 | |||
Ever received influenza vaccine | 0.027 | |||
Received influenza vaccine ever year | 0.0001 | |||
Parents should receive influenza vaccine to prevent passing influenza onto their babies | Age | 0.0201 | Doctor ever discussed vaccine during pregnancy | 0.0280 |
Doctor ever discussed vaccination | 0.0027 | Received influenza vaccine ever year | <.0001 | |
Ever received influenza vaccine | 0.0290 | |||
Received influenza vaccine ever year | <.0001 | |||
If a vaccine is recommended for all children by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization(part of public Health Agency of Canada that makes recommendation on vaccines) the government has a responsibility to pay for the vaccine for all children | Race | 0.0493 | Received influenza vaccine ever year | 0.0002 |
*For influenza immunization, pre-existing indications include chronic cardio-pulmonary diseases, immunocompromised status, and high-risk contacts. These pre-existing conditions include: heart condition, cystic fibrosis, asthma, other lung condition(s), allergy to eggs, allergic reaction to previous influenza vaccination, and Guillain-Barré syndrome. The pre-existing conditions do not include: high blood pressure, diabetes, abnormalities of the cervix or uterus, autoimmune disease, and liver disease or hepatitis.