Table 4:
Knowledge and Attitudes of California Immunization Laws and Senate Bill 277 (SB277)
| Total Sample 140 (100%) |
Not up-to-date 41 (29%) |
Up-to-date 99 (71%) |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awareness of California laws that require children to be vaccinated for school | <0.01 | |||
| Yes | 126 (90) | 34 (83) | 92 (93) | |
| No | 5 (4) | 5 (12) | 0 (0) | |
| Don’t Know | 9 (6) | 2 (5) | 7 (7) | |
| Did these laws influence your decision to vaccinate your youngest homeschooled child | 0.04 | |||
| Yes | 30 (22) | 4 (10) | 26 (26) | |
| No | 104 (74) | 34 (83) | 70 (71) | |
| Don’t Know | 6 (4) | 3 (7) | 3 (3) | |
| Did you consider any of the following as a result of California laws to vaccinate your youngest homeschooled child for school-entry (mark all that apply) | ||||
| Permanent Medical Exemption (PME) | 21 (15) | 12 (30) | 9 (9) | <0.01 |
| Moving out of California | 21 (15) | 16 (39) | 5 (5) | <0.01 |
| Getting an Individualized Education Program (IEP) | 4 (3) | 3 (7) | 1 (1) | 0.14 |
| Homeschooling | 42 (30) | 25 (61) | 17 (17) | <0.01 |
| Other | 8 (6) | 4 (10) | 4 (4) | 0.35 |
| I did not consider any of these | 74 (53) | 3 (7) | 71 (72) | <0.01 |
| If there no laws requiring vaccines for school-entry in California, what would the vaccination status of your youngest homeschooled child be | <0.01 | |||
| Up-to-date on all vaccines | 75 (54) | 4 (10) | 71 (72) | |
| Partially vaccinated | 32 (23) | 11 (27) | 21 (21) | |
| No vaccines | 26 (19) | 23 (56) | 3 (3) | |
| Don’t Know Did Not Answer | 7 (5) | 3 (7) | 4 (4) | |
| Aware of Senate Bill 277 | 0.06 | |||
| Yes | 79 (56) | 29 (71) | 50 (51) | |
| No | 42 (30) | 10 (24) | 32 (32) | |
| Don’t Know/Did not answer | 19 (14) | 2 (5) | 17 (17) | |
| How did you learn about Senate Bill 277 (mark all that apply) | ||||
| Media | 37 (26) | 17 (41) | 20 (20) | <0.01 |
| Social Media | 37 (26) | 18 (44) | 19 (19) | <0.01 |
| School | 17 (12) | 6 (15) | 11 (11) | 0. 77 |
| Doctor | 19 (14) | 10 (24) | 9 (9) | 0.03 |
| Health Department | 7 (5) | 2 (5) | 5 (5) | 1.00 |
| Friends, neighbors, relatives | 37 (26) | 15 (37) | 22 (22) | 0.12 |
| Other | 7 (5) | 2 (5) | 5 (5) | 1.00 |