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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 18.
Published in final edited form as: Vaccine. 2020 Jan 27;38(8):2045–2050. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.12.047

Table 4.

Reason of non-vaccinated seasonal influenza vaccines among health care workers in Vietnam, by age groups

Beliefs (for non-vaccinated, n=750) Under 30 (n=239) 30 – 39 (n=281) 40 – 49 (n=157) >50 (n=73) P across groups
Contracting the disease is better than getting vaccinated 9 (4%) 18 (6%) 2 (1%) 1 (1%) 0.035
Previously still got influenza after getting vaccinated 30 (13%) 58 (21%) 14 (9%) 13 (18%) 0.005
Acquired immunity due to the nature of my work 9 (4%) 14 (5%) 6(4%) 11 (15%) 0.001
Annual vaccination is costly 24 (10%) 51 (18%) 22 (14%) 7 (10%) 0.039
Sceptical about the long-term health effects of vaccines 23 (10%) 38 (14%) 14 (9%) 15 (21%) 0.039
No time to get vaccinated 42 (18%) 35 (13%) 13 (8%) 14 (19%) 0.029
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the highest % is the reference group underlined, those significant differences are marked in bold resulting from 2x2 table of the reference group with others on the same row.