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. 2019 Feb 12;19:182. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-6516-8

Table 3.

Assessed importance of pertussis vaccination by university and nationality among medical students, n = 2569

Assessed importance of pertussis vaccination by university and nationality; % (n)
University Nationality (n) Absolutely necessary Partly necessary Mostly unnecessary Unnecessary/ dangerous
Dresden German (n = 527) 77.4%a (408) 19.2%a (101) 2.8%a (15) 0.6%a (3)
Hungarian (n = 0) 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0)
Other (n = 29) 58.6%b (17) 31.0%b (9) 10.3%b (3) 0.0%a (0)
All (n = 556) 76.4% (425) 19.8% (110) 3.2% (18) 0.5% (3)
Munich German (n = 364) 63.7%a (232) 26.9%a (98) 7.1%a (26) 2.2%a (8)
Hungarian (n = 0) 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0) 0.0% (0)
Other (n = 52) 57.7%a (30) 34.6%a (18) 5.8%a (3) 1.9%a (1)
All (n = 416) 63.0% (262) 27.9% (116) 7.0% (29) 2.2% (9)
Pécs German (n = 181) 61.9%a (112) 27.6%a (50) 7.7%a (14) 2.8%a (5)
Hungarian (n = 378) 85.7%b (324) 11.9%b (45) 2.1%b (8) 0.3%b (1)
Other (n = 174) 60.9%a (106) 26.4%a (46) 10.3%a (18) 2.3%a (4)
All (n = 733) 73.9% (542) 19.2% (141) 5.5% (40) 1.4% (10)
Budapest German (n = 108) 66.7%a (72) 22.2%a (24) 10.2%a (11) 0.9%a (1)
Hungarian (n = 560) 86.6%b (485) 10.4%b (58) 2.7%b (15) 0.4%a (2)
Other (n = 196) 74.0%a (145) 21.4%a (42) 3.1%b (6) 1.5%a (3)
All (n = 870) 81.3% (702) 14.4% (124) 3.7% (32) 0.7% (6)
Total German (n = 1180) 69.8%a (824) 23.1%a (273) 5.6%a (66) 1.4%a (17)
Hungarian (n = 938) 86.2%b (809) 11.0%b(103) 2.5%b (23) 0.3%b (3)
Other (n = 451) 66.1%a (298) 25.5%a (115) 6.7%a (30) 1.8%a (8)
All (n = 2569) 75.2% (1931) 19.1% (491) 4.6% (119) 1.1% (28)

a,b Each letter specifies a subset of ‘Nationality’ categories whose column shares are not significantly different at the 0.05 level (Z-test)