Table 3.
Practice Characteristics Associated With Physician Report of Parental Deferral of the HPV Vaccine for their 11- to 12-Year-Old Children (n = 543)
| Practice Characteristic | Physician Report of Proportion of Parents Who Defer |
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|---|---|---|---|
| <25% (n = 190) | ≥25% (n = 353) | p | |
| Practice specialty | |||
| FP | 36 | 34 | — |
| Pediatricians | 64 | 66 | .72 |
| Setting | |||
| Private practice | 64 | 82 | — |
| HMO | 3 | 15 | — |
| Hospital or clinic | 33 | 3 | .0001 |
| Location | |||
| Urban | 28 | 16 | — |
| Suburban | 60 | 74 | — |
| Rural | 12 | 10 | .002 |
| Region | |||
| Midwest | 23 | 23 | — |
| Northeast | 17 | 24 | — |
| South | 31 | 32 | — |
| West | 29 | 21 | .09 |
| What percentages of your patients have private insurance? | |||
| 0–24% | 36 | 15 | — |
| 25%−49% | 23 | 18 | — |
| >50% | 41 | 67 | <.0001a |
| What percentages of your patients are non-Hispanic white? | |||
| 0–24% | 29 | 13 | — |
| 25%−49% | 20 | 18 | — |
| >50% | 50 | 69 | <.0001a |
Data are presented as %. HMO, health maintenance organization.
a
According to the Mantel-Haenszel test.