Table 3.
Correlations between vaccine confidence and trust in doctors and medicine, scientific knowledge and the government (n = 1079).
| Mandatory Vaccinations (Vaccines) Are Safe | Doctors can be Trusted | I Trust My Doctor | Only Scientific Knowledge Is Trustworthy | Horoscopes Contain a lot of Truth | Governments usually Want the Well-Being of Citizens | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mandatory vaccinations (vaccines) are safe | r | - | |||||
| p | |||||||
| Doctors can be trusted | r | 0.33 | - | ||||
| p | 0.0001 | ||||||
| I trust my doctor | r | 0.35 | 0.62 | - | |||
| p | 0.0001 | 0.0001 | |||||
| Only scientific knowledge is trustworthy | r | 0.19 | 0.27 | 0.22 | - | ||
| p | 0.0001 | 0.0001 | 0.0001 | - | - | ||
| Horoscopes contain a lot of truth | r | −0.13 | 0.06 | −0.02 | 0.08 | - | - |
| p | 0.0001 | 0.07 | 0.6 | 0.01 | |||
| Governments usually want the well-being of citizens | r | −0.02 | 0.24 | 0.13 | 0.15 | 0.18 | - |
| p | 0.6 | 0.0001 | 0.0001 | 0.0001 | 0.0001 |
r—The Spearman rank correlation coefficient.