Table 3.
Child’s vaccine history and experience with the HPV vaccine by child’s demographics and respondent’s gender.
| Child’s Gender |
Child’s Age (Years) |
Respondent’s Gendere |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Female | Male | p-value | ≤ 10 | 11–14 | ≥ 15 | p-value | Female | Male | p-value | |
| No. of Respondents | 622 | 355 | 267 | 207 | 373 | 42 | 525 | 75 | |||
| Has a doctor or health professional (like a practitioner) ever advised you to get your child vaccinated against HPV? | |||||||||||
| Yes | 273 (43.9) | 165 (46.5) | 108 (40.5) | 0.0595a | 59 (28.5) | 195 (52.3) | 19 (45.2) | < .0001a, b | 242 (46.1) | 24 (32.0) | 0.0573a |
| No | 267 (42.9) | 149 (42.0) | 118 (44.2) | 123 (59.4) | 132 (35.4) | 12 (28.6) | 220 (41.9) | 34 (45.3) | |||
| Not Sure | 78 (12.5) | 37 (10.4) | 41 (15.4) | 25 (12.1) | 43 (11.5) | 10 (23.8) | 60 (11.4) | 16 (21.3) | |||
| Missing | 4 (0.6) | 4 (1.1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 3 (0.8) | 1 (2.4) | 3 (0.6) | 1 (1.3) | |||
| Has your child received the HPV vaccine? | |||||||||||
| Yes | 202 (32.5) | 117 (33.0) | 85 (31.8) | 0.6173a | 25 (12.1) | 159 (42.6) | 18 (42.9) | < .0001b | 175 (33.3) | 20 (26.7) | 0.3783a |
| No | 299 (48.1) | 170 (47.9) | 129 (48.3) | 143 (69.1) | 139 (37.3) | 17 (40.5) | 252 (48.0) | 36 (48.0) | |||
| Not Sure | 112 (18.0) | 61 (17.2) | 51 (19.1) | 35 (16.9) | 70 (18.8) | 7 (16.7) | 90 (17.1) | 19 (25.3) | |||
| Missing | 9 (1.5) | 7 (2.0) | 2 (0.8) | 4 (1.9) | 5 (1.3) | 0 (0) | 8 (1.5) | 0 (0) | |||
| If yes, how many doses?d | 202 | 117 | 85 | 25 | 159 | 18 | 175 | 20 | |||
| 1 | 59 (29.2) | 39 (33.3) | 20 (23.8) | 11 (44.0) | 45 (28.3) | 3 (16.7) | 56 (32.0) | 3 (4.0) | |||
| 2 | 36 (17.8) | 20 (17.1) | 16 (19.1) | 6 (24.0) | 28 (17.6) | 2 (11.1) | 28 (16.0) | 6 (30.0) | |||
| 3 | 81 (40.1) | 46 (39.3) | 35 (41.7) | 5 (20.0) | 67 (42.1) | 9 (50.0) | 69 (39.43) | 8 (40.0) | |||
| Not Sure | 25 (13.4) | 12 (10.3) | 13 (15.5) | 3 (12.0) | 18 (11.3) | 4 (22.2) | 21 (12.0) | 3 (15.0) | |||
| Missing | 1 (0.50) | 0 (0) | 1 (1.2) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.6) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.6) | 0 (0) | |||
| Initiation (at least 1 dose) | 176 (87.1) | 105 (89.7) | 71 (83.5) | 0.3711a | 22 (88.0) | 140 (88.1) | 14 (77.8) | 0.2527a | 153 (87.4) | 17 (85.0) | 0.2858a |
| Complete (at least 2 doses) | 117 (57.9) | 66 (56.4) | 51 (60.0) | 11 (44.0) | 95 (59.8) | 11 (61.1) | 97 (55.4) | 14 (70.0) | |||
| If no, what are the main reasons your child has not received the HPV vaccine?f,g | 299 | 170 | 129 | 143 | 139 | 17 | 252 | 36 | |||
| Work / School schedule conflict | 19 (6.4) | 11 (6.5) | 8 (6.2) | 0.9247 | 3 (2.1) | 15 (10.8) | 1 (5.9) | 0.0113c | 17 (6.8) | 2 (5.6) | 1.0000a |
| Not recommended by child’s doctor | 104 (34.8) | 55 (32.4) | 49 (38.0) | 0.3112 | 44 (30.8) | 52 (37.4) | 8 (47.1) | 0.277 | 87 (34.5) | 16 (44.4) | 0.0959 |
| My child is not sexually active | 50 (16.7) | 25 (14.7) | 25 (19.4) | 0.2834 | 24 (16.8) | 22 (15.8) | 4 (23.5) | 0.724 | 46 (18.3) | 2 (5.6) | 0.1600 |
| Too young | 91 (30.4) | 59 (34.7) | 32 (24.8) | 0.0654 | 59 (41.3) | 32 (23.0) | 0 (0) | < .0001b | 79 (31.4) | 6 (16.7) | 0.0419c |
| Safety concern / side effects | 46 (15.4) | 28 (16.5) | 18 (14.0) | 0.5502 | 18 (12.6) | 26 (18.7) | 2 (11.8) | 0.3316 | 39 (15.5) | 5 (13.9) | 0.9373 |
| Other | 54 (18.1) | 29 (17.1) | 25 (19.4) | 0.6054 | 25 (17.5) | 24 (17.3) | 5 (29.4) | 0.4557 | 46 (18.3) | 5 (13.9) | 0.5884 |
Stratified group results from surveys collected between May and June 2017 for RGCCISD.
aDenotes Fisher’s exact test is used. Otherwise, Chi-Square test is used.
bDenotes significance under α = .001.
cDenotes Significance under α = .05.
dWhere n is the total number of individuals who answered YES to the question of “Has your child received the HPV vaccine?”
eMissing parent’s gender found in the survey.
fDenotes questions where individuals could choose all choices that apply.
gWhere n is the total number of individuals who answered NO to the question of “Has your child received the HPV vaccine?”