Table 5.

Reason why parents have not vaccinated their sons with the HPV vaccine^a (N=125)^b

Reasons	N (%)
I never heard of the vaccine	39 (31.2%)
I don’t know enough about it yet	29 (23.2%)
I didn’t know boys are allowed to get the vaccine	52 (41.6%)
It’s too new	8 (6.4%)
It might be unsafe	4 (3.2%)
It costs too much	3 (2.4%)
Boys don’t need to get the vaccine	3 (2.4%)
My son is too young	12 (9.6%)
My son is not having sex yet	22 (17.6%)
It might make my son have sex	1 (0.8%)
My son hasn’t been to a doctor recently	9 (7.2%)
His doctor didn’t recommend getting the vaccine	5 (4.0%)
Other reasons	13 (10.4%)
Don’t know	10 (8.0%)

^aNot mutually excluded

^bAmong parents of unvaccinated sons (n= 125; missing= 5)