Table 1.
Descriptive Statistics for Study Variables. HPV Immunization in Sons Study, 2010.
| Parents (n = 518) |
Adolescent Males (n = 401) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Variable | n (%) or M (SD) | n (%) or M (SD) |
| Attitudes toward HPV vaccination | ||
| Individualistic attitudes | 3.66 (1.29) | 3.57 (1.29) |
| Prosocial girlfriend or wife attitudes | 3.64 (1.29) | 3.66 (1.26) |
| Prosocial sex partner attitudes | 3.57 (1.27) | |
| Prosocial community attitudes | 3.52 (1.29) | 3.34 (1.32) |
| Willingness to vaccinate | ||
| Adolescent willingness to get HPV vaccine | 2.97 (1.14) | |
| Parent willingness to get son HPV vaccine | 3.38 (1.21) | |
| Independent variables | ||
| Parent’s education | ||
| College degree+ | 133 (25.68) | 93 (23.19) |
| Some college | 160 (30.89) | 131 (32.67) |
| High school diploma | 158 (30.50) | 127 (31.67) |
| <12 years | 67 (12.93) | 50 (12.47) |
| Household income (U.S. dollars) | 67,457 (42,986) | 65,530 (42,616) |
| Respondent’s race-ethnicity | ||
| Non-Hispanic white | 355 (68.53) | 251 (62.59) |
| Non-Hispanic black | 61 (11.78) | 48 (11.97) |
| Hispanic | 76 (14.67) | 61 (15.21) |
| Other race-ethnicity | 26 (5.02) | 41 (10.22) |
| Control variables | ||
| Parent’s religiosity | 3.58 (1.35) | 3.63 (1.34) |
| Adolescent male’s age (years) | 14.03 (2.11) | 14.04 (2.10) |
| Parent’s age (years) | ||
| Younger than 45 | 313 (60.42) | |
| 45 or older | 205 (39.58) | |
| Parent’s marital status | ||
| Married or cohabitating | 425 (82.05) | 334 (83.29) |
| Single | 93 (17.95) | 67 (16.71) |
| Parent’s sex | ||
| Female | 274 (52.90) | |
| Male | 244 (47.10) | |
| Number of children in household | ||
| 1 or 2 | 371 (71.62) | 282 (70.32) |
| 3 or more | 147 (28.38) | 119 (29.68) |
| Urbanicity | ||
| Urban | 429 (82.82) | 330 (82.29) |
| Rural | 89 (17.18) | 71 (17.71) |
| Region | ||
| South | 171 (33.0I) | 139 (34.66) |
| Midwest | 131 (25.29) | 102 (25.44) |
| Northeast | 109 (21.04) | 78 (19.45) |
| West | 107 (20.66) | 82 (20.45) |
Note: HPV = human papillomavirus.