Table 4.
Reasons parents did or did not vaccinated their daughters or sons.
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| Daughters | Sons | Daughters | Sons | Daughters | Sons | Daughters | Sons | |||
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | Daughters | Sons | |
| Reasons parents vaccinated their daughters (n = 160) or sons (n = 115) | ||||||||||
| The doctor recommended it. | 38 (92.7) | 24 (96.0) | 38 (95.0) | 27 (96.4) | 31 (96.9) | 27 (93.1) | 44 (95.7) | 32 (97.0) | .88 | .89 |
| I wanted to protect my child. | 38 (92.7) | 24 (96.0) | 38 (95.0) | 26 (92.9) | 31 (96.9) | 28 (96.6) | 44 (95.7) | 33 (100.0) | .88 | .51 |
| I vaccinate her/him for everything else. | 32 (78.1) | 22 (88.0) | 33 (82.5) | 24 (85.7) | 15 (46.9) | 22 (75.9) | 42 (91.3) | 30 (90.9) | <.001 | .39 |
| I have friends whose children are HPV vaccinated. | 24 (58.5) | 15 (60.0) | 23 (57.5) | 10 (35.7) | 19 (59.4) | 13 (44.8) | 32 (69.6) | 21 (63.6) | .72 | .12 |
| Reasons parents did not vaccinate their daughters (n = 222) or sons (n = 275) | ||||||||||
| I never knew about the vaccine. | 14 (29.2) | 38 (51.4) | 30 (44.8) | 35 (53.0) | 9 (14.5) | 19 (23.8) | 21 (46.7) | 24 (43.6) | <.001 | .004 |
| The doctor didn’t mention the vaccine. | 20 (41.7) | 34 (45.9) | 32 (47.8) | 38 (57.6) | 13 (21.0) | 42 (52.5) | 22 (48.9) | 33 (60.0) | .011 | .19 |
| It’s a new vaccine. | 27 (56.3) | 39 (52.7) | 40 (49.7) | 30 (45.4) | 37 (59.7) | 45 (56.3) | 27 (60.0) | 30 (54.5) | .44 | .26 |
| I’m not sure it’s safe. | 32 (66.7) | 42 (56.8) | 42 (62.7) | 33 (50.0) | 41 (66.1) | 43 (53.8) | 24 (53.3) | 27 (49.1) | .52 | .53 |
| She/he is too young to get the vaccine. | 19 (39.6) | 23 (31.1) | 33 (49.3) | 23 (34.8) | 18 (29.0) | 16 (20.0) | 14 (31.1) | 17 (30.9) | .097 | .017 |
| She/he is not at risk for HPV. | 18 (37.5) | 29 (39.2) | 26 (38.8) | 22 (33.3) | 27 (43.5) | 39 (48.8) | 20 (44.4) | 11 (20.0) | .88 | .01 |
| I don’t want her/him to think it’s OK to have sex. | 14 (29.2) | 29 (39.2) | 30 (44.8) | 28 (42.4) | 21 (33.9) | 20 (25.0) | 20 (44.4) | 18 (32.7) | .54 | .051 |
| I’m not sure if insurance covers the vaccine. | 14 (29.2) | 24 (32.4) | 32 (47.8) | 30 (45.5) | 11 (17.7) | 14 (17.5) | 11 (24.4) | 17 (30.9) | .002 | .003 |
| I don’t know enough about the vaccine. | 36 (75.0) | 50 (67.6) | 54 (80.6) | 44 (66.7) | 29 (46.8) | 43 (53.8) | 33 (73.3) | 35 (63.6) | .001 | .053 |