Table 3. General attitudes towards vaccination among the three clusters of general practitioners, weighted data, France, April to July 2014 (n = 1,575a).
Vaccine hesitancy | All | p valueb | |||
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No-to-slight n = 1,353 (85.9%) |
Moderate n = 166 (10.6%) |
High n = 56 (3.5%) |
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Attitudes towards vaccination in general | |||||
Favourable to vaccination in general | |||||
Very favourable | 84.7 | 56.2 | 43.4 | 80.3 | < 0.0001 |
Quite favourable | 14.5 | 35.0 | 24.8 | 17.0 | |
Not favourable | 0.8 | 8.9 | 31.8 | 2.7 | |
Perceived role towards patients: convince them to vaccinate, even when they are reluctant | |||||
No | 6.5 | 27.3 | 52.8 | 10.3 | < 0.0001 |
Yes | 93.5 | 72.7 | 47.2 | 89.7 | |
Attitude towards vaccination | |||||
Ardent supporterc | 20.6 | 7.4 | 0.0 | 18.5 | < 0.0001 |
Radical opponentd | 0.0 | 1.3 | 19.0 | 0.8 | |
Other | 79.4 | 91.3 | 81.0 | 80.7 |
a Seven missing values.
b Rao-Scott chi-squared test.
c Frequent recommendations (often/always) in all of the six vaccine situations AND no doubts about vaccine usefulness or safety, excluding items regarding the links between Guillain–Barré syndrome and seasonal influenza and between narcolepsy and Pandemrix, which are evidence-based.
d Rare recommendations (sometimes/never) in all of the six vaccine situations AND doubts about vaccine usefulness and risks, excluding items regarding the links between Guillain–Barré syndrome and seasonal influenza and between narcolepsy and Pandemrix.