Table 1.
Background characteristics of respondents by acceptability of HPV vaccine
| Acceptability of HPV vaccine (N = 777) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Background characteristics | Likely to support HPV vaccine (n = 705) (%) | Unlikely to support HPV vaccine (n = 72) (%) | p value |
| HPV vaccination status | |||
| Vaccinated | 397 (56.3) | 47 (65.3) | 0. 14 |
| Unvaccinated | 308 (43.7) | 25 (34.7) | |
| Age | |||
| Younger adolescent (9–14 years) | 561 (79.6) | 58 (80.6) | 0.84 |
| Older adolescent (15–19 years) | 144 (20.4) | 14 (19.4) | |
| Kind of school | |||
| Exclusively day | 540 (76.6) | 59 (81.9) | 0.30 |
| Both day and boarding | 165 (23.4) | 13 (18.1) | |
| Location of school | |||
| Rural | 476 (67.5) | 53 (73.6) | 0.29 |
| Urban | 229 (32.5) | 19 (26.4)) | |
| Class | |||
| Primary six | 423 (60.0) | 41 (56.9) | 0.62 |
| Primary five | 282 (40.0) | 31 (43.1) | |
Notes:
- For all background or predictor variables, likely to support odds are divided by unlikely to support odds
- Significance at p ≤ 0.05