Table 2.

Awareness, health care provider recommendation and use of pandemic influenza vaccines

	Overall (%)	Age group (%)a			Area of residence (%)					Sex (%)
		Younger	Older	P valueb	Urban middle-income	Urban low-resource	Rural more accessible	Rural less accessible	P valueb	Female	Male	P valueb
	n = 436	n = 223	n = 213		n = 102	n = 113	n = 113	n = 108		n = 221	n = 215
Awareness of vaccines to prevent swine flu
Nasal vaccinec	26.6	31.4	21.6	*	47.1	25.7	26.6	8.3	***	25.8	27.4
Injectable vaccined	23.4	26.0	20.7		28.4	26.6	17.7	21.3		21.7	25.1
Recommendation by health care provider
To take a swine flu vaccinee	15.8	20.6	10.8	**	23.5	20.4	13.3	6.5	**	13.1	18.6
Uptake of swine flu vaccine
Personal usef	8.3	9.4	7.0		13.7	6.2	9.7	3.7	*	5.9	10.7
Others in householdg	10.6	NA	NA		19.6	7.1	14.2	1.9	***	NA	NA

^aYounger age group: 18–45 years, Older age group: 46–65 years; NA: Not applicable.

^bFisher's exact test was used to compare proportions across age groups, area of residence and sex: *p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤ 0.01, *** p ≤0.001.^cFrequency of affirmative responses to the question: “Are you aware of a vaccine that is sprayed into a person's nose to protect against swine flu?”^dFrequency of affirmative responses to the question: “Are you aware of a vaccine that is injected into a person's upper arm to protect against swine flu?”

^eFrequency of affirmative responses to the question: “Has your health care provider ever recommended your taking a vaccine to protect against swine flu?”

^fFrequency of affirmative responses to the question: “Have you ever taken a vaccine to prevent swine flu?”

^gFrequency of affirmative responses to the question: “Has anyone else in your household ever taken a vaccine to prevent swine flu?”

All questions were enquired in the local language, Marathi, and translations have been provided here.