Table 4.
Reasons for receiving influenza vaccine stratified by age.
| Total |
20–64 years old (n = 1489) |
≥65 years old (n = 168) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reasons | (n = 1657) n % |
Junior and senior high school, n = 344 (23.1%) | Vocational and technical college, n = 353 (23.7%) | University and graduate school, n = 792 (53.2%) | p value | Junior and senior high school, n = 66 (39.3%) | Vocational and technical college, n = 28 (16.7%) | University and graduate school, n = 74 (44%) | p value |
| Managed by school or company | 538 (32.5) | 104 (30.2) | 116 (32.9) | 311 (39.3) | 0.006 | 3 (4.5) | 1 (3.6) | 3 (4.1) | 0.975 |
| No particular reason | 395 (23.8) | 99 (28.8) | 87 (24.6) | 162 (20.4) | 0.008 | 20 (30.3) | 10 (35.7) | 17 (23.0) | 0.381 |
| Advice from family member | 255 (15.4) | 49 (14.2) | 34 (9.6) | 141 (17.8) | 0.002 | 11 (16.7) | 3 (10.7) | 17 (23.0) | 0.323 |
| Feelings of vaccine being effective | 222 (13.4) | 33 (9.6) | 46 (13.0) | 102 (12.9) | 0.252 | 13 (19.7) | 8 (28.6) | 20 (27.0) | 0.514 |
| Living with children | 148 (8.9) | 37 (10.8) | 30 (8.5) | 74 (9.3) | 0.587 | 5 (7.6) | – | 2 (2.7) | 0.171 |
| Advice from medical person | 133 (8.0) | 27 (7.8) | 30 (8.5) | 52 (6.6) | 0.466 | 10 (15.1) | 2 (7.1) | 12 (16.2) | 0.489 |
| Experience of severe influenza | 122 (7.4) | 29 (8.4) | 24 (6.8) | 57 (7.2) | 0.681 | 4 (6.1) | 3 (10.7) | 5 (6.8) | 0.715 |
| Living with elders | 80 (4.8) | 16 (4.6) | 13 (3.7) | 26 (3.3) | 0.532 | 12 (18.2) | 4 (14.3) | 9 (12.2) | 0.604 |
| Others | 58 (3.5) | 7 (2.0) | 16 (4.5) | 23 (2.9) | 0.148 | 6 (9.1) | 2 (7.1) | 4 (5.4) | 0.700 |
| Living with a student at present preparing for entrance exam | 37 (2.2) | 7 (2.0) | 10 (2.8) | 19 (2.4) | 0.789 | – | – | 1 (1.3) | 0.528 |