Table I.
Sample characteristics of male adolescents aged 13-17 years in the US, by demographic and access-to-care variables, NIS-Teen 2016
| Overall |
Parental report of provider recommendation for HPV vaccine, weighted % |
Prevalence of provider recommendation for HPV vaccine, weighted % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | n | Weighted % | Yes | No | |
| Total | 9712 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 65.5 |
| Age, y | |||||
| 13-15* | 5938 | 60.0 | 58.9 | 62.1 | 64.3 |
| 16-17 | 3774 | 40.0 | 41.1 | 37.9 | 67.3 |
| Race/ethnicity | |||||
| Non-Hispanic white* | 6267 | 54.6 | 55.5 | 52.9 | 66.6 |
| Non-Hispanic black | 923 | 13.0 | 12.9 | 13.0 | 65.3 |
| Hispanic | 1488 | 22.9 | 22.5 | 23.5 | 64.6 |
| American Indian/Alaskan Native | 144 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 63.8 |
| Asian | 319 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 4.2 | 58.6 |
| Other | 571 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 5.5 | 63.8 |
| Mother’s educational level | |||||
| Less than high school* | 931 | 13.2 | 11.9 | 15.8† | 58.8 |
| High school | 1478 | 21.3 | 18.7 | 26.2 | 57.6 |
| Some college or college graduate | 2554 | 24.6 | 25.2 | 23.6 | 67.0‡ |
| Beyond college graduate | 4749 | 40.8 | 44.2 | 34.4 | 70.9‡ |
| Mother’s marital status | |||||
| Married* | 6873 | 66.2 | 67.1 | 64.6 | 67.1 |
| Widowed/divorced/separated | 1634 | 24.3 | 23.4 | 26.1 | 63.8 |
| Never married | 591 | 9.4 | 9.5 | 9.2 | 66.9 |
| Mother’s age, y | |||||
| ≤34* | 801 | 9.4 | 7.7 | 12.5† | 54.1 |
| 35-44 | 3899 | 43.8 | 42.1 | 47.0 | 63.0‡ |
| ≥45 | 5012 | 46.9 | 50.2 | 40.6 | 70.2‡ |
| Country of birth | |||||
| Born in US* | 9235 | 94.3 | 95.6 | 91.8† | 66.4 |
| Born outside US | 401 | 5.7 | 4.4 | 8.2 | 50.2‡ |
| Income-to-poverty ratio, % | |||||
| <1.33* | 2308 | 30.8 | 28.3 | 35.7† | 60.1 |
| 1.33 to <3.22 | 2749 | 28.6 | 28.2 | 29.4 | 64.6 |
| 3.22 to <5.03 | 2033 | 18.4 | 18.7 | 17.8 | 66.6‡ |
| >5.03 | 2622 | 22.2 | 24.8 | 17.2 | 73.3‡ |
| Medical insurance§ | |||||
| Private only* | 5834 | 52.7 | 55.6 | 47.1† | 69.2 |
| Any Medicaid | 2842 | 36.4 | 33.8 | 41.3 | 60.8‡ |
| Other¶ | 727 | 7.6 | 8.1 | 6.5 | 70.3 |
| Uninsured | 309 | 3.4 | 2.5 | 5.1 | 47.9‡ |
| Physician contacts within past year | |||||
| None * | 1313 | 16.2 | 12.9 | 22.5† | 52.2 |
| 1 | 2933 | 31.4 | 32.2 | 29.9 | 67.3‡ |
| 2-3 | 3499 | 34.3 | 35.8 | 31.5 | 68.4‡ |
| ≥4 | 1901 | 18.1 | 19.1 | 16.0 | 69.5‡ |
| Well-child visit at age 11-12 y** | |||||
| Yes* | 4754 | 46.3 | 50.5 | 38.2† | 71.5 |
| No | 2267 | 22.1 | 18.8 | 28.4 | 55.7‡ |
| Don’t know | 2691 | 31.6 | 30.7 | 33.4 | 63.6‡ |
| Number of vaccination providers | |||||
| 1 | 5500 | 58.9 | 58.3 | 60.2† | 64.8 |
| 2 | 2733 | 26.5 | 26.9 | 25.9 | 66.4 |
| ≥3* | 1479 | 14.5 | 14.9 | 14.0 | 66.9 |
| MSA | |||||
| MSA, central city | 3831 | 40.9 | 42.1 | 38.6† | 67.5‡ |
| MSA, non-central city | 3876 | 46.4 | 46.6 | 45.9 | 65.9‡ |
| Non-MSA* | 2005 | 12.7 | 11.3 | 15.5 | 58.0 |
| Vaccination facility type | |||||
| All private facilities* | 4873 | 53.0 | 54.5 | 50.1† | 67.4 |
| All public facilities | 1339 | 14.5 | 12.2 | 18.9 | 55.0‡ |
| All hospital facilities | 1169 | 10.0 | 10.2 | 9.6 | 66.9 |
| All STD/school/teen clinics or other facilities | 157 | 2.3 | 2.1 | †† | 59.6 |
| Mixed‡‡ | 2044 | 18.8 | 19.2 | 18.1 | 66.9 |
| Other§§ | 130 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 85.4‡ |
Reference level.
P < .05 by the χ2 test.
P < .05 by the t test compared with the reference group.
Insurance categories are mutually exclusive.
Includes Indian Health Service (IHS), military, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and some private.
Status of healthcare visit at age 11-12 years based on provider-reported data.
Data are not reliable due to sample size <30 or relative standard error (standard error/estimate) >0.3.
Mixed indicates that the facility is identified to be in more than 1 of the facility categories, such as private, public, hospital, and sexually transmitted disease (STD)/school/teen clinics.
Includes military, Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) clinics, and pharmacies.