Table 2.

Reasons for not willing to receive the vaccination (for pregnant women) and not having received the vaccination (for women in the postpartum period).

	Pregnant women N = 126	Women in the postpartum N = 177	p-value	Total
Nobody recommended it	79 (62.70)	145 (81.92)	<0.001	224 (73.93)
I am scared of side effects for women and/or fetus’ development	51 (40.48)	21 (11.86)	<0.001	72 (23.76)
I have already had pertussis	34 (26.98)	36 (20.34)	0.176	70 (23.10)
In general, I am opposed to vaccination	22 (17.46)	15 (8.47)	0.019	37 (12.21)
I am not a risk category and I do not need it	8 (6.35)	11 (6.21)	0.962	19 (6.27)
Vaccine is not safe	8 (6.35)	6 (3.39)	0.226	14 (4.62)
Somebody else had a bad health experience after vaccination	6 (4.76)	6 (3.39)	0.546	12 (3.96)
My HCP advised me not to get vaccinated	3 (2.38)	4 (2.26)	0.945	7 (2.31)