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. 2020 Feb 21;16(10):2438–2448. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2020.1723365

Table 4.

Correlation between fear and vaccination

  Completed Vacination at birth (BCG, OPV0, HepB)
Completed Vacination at 6week (OPV1, Penta1, PCV1)
  (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
Fear of needles 0.230***       0.326***      
  [0.130,0.407]       [0.184,0.576]      
Fear of side effects   0.344***       0.411***    
    [0.199,0.597]       [0.238,0.710]    
Fear that vaccine has no benefit     0.365***       0.509**  
      [0.196,0.682]       [0.272,0.950]  
Fear that vaccine does harm       0.290***       0.424***
        [0.155,0.546]       [0.225,0.796]
Age (control: 20 or below)                
 21–25 1.228 1.381 1.371 1.223 0.764 0.847 0.835 0.785
  [0.629,2.398] [0.717,2.660] [0.717,2.624] [0.634,2.362] [0.416,1.402] [0.465,1.543] [0.461,1.513] [0.431,1.429]
 26–30 0.868 0.898 1.118 1.099 0.724 0.738 0.859 0.843
  [0.410,1.835] [0.429,1.880] [0.537,2.327] [0.523,2.309] [0.362,1.449] [0.370,1.471] [0.433,1.704] [0.424,1.676]
 31–35 0.738 1.004 1.097 1.003 0.518 0.654 0.688 0.648
  [0.304,1.791] [0.423,2.386] [0.464,2.591] [0.424,2.378] [0.227,1.181] [0.291,1.469] [0.307,1.544] [0.289,1.453]
 36 or above 0.622 0.929 0.978 0.947 1.062 1.392 1.429 1.394
  [0.185,2.087] [0.280,3.089] [0.298,3.206] [0.288,3.113] [0.340,3.315] [0.448,4.324] [0.465,4.394] [0.454,4.281]
Education (control: none)                
 Some primary 1.549 1.540 1.523 1.616 1.308 1.301 1.293 1.326
  [0.847,2.835] [0.851,2.789] [0.845,2.746] [0.890,2.933] [0.749,2.286] [0.748,2.264] [0.746,2.242] [0.763,2.303]
 Secondary and higher 2.894*** 2.838*** 3.021*** 3.056*** 2.196*** 2.158*** 2.239*** 2.278***
  [1.626,5.153] [1.611,5.001] [1.714,5.325] [1.728,5.402] [1.326,3.637] [1.308,3.561] [1.361,3.683] [1.383,3.753]
Number of children 1.039 1.012 1.015 0.999 0.982 0.968 0.969 0.963
  [0.909,1.188] [0.888,1.155] [0.891,1.157] [0.876,1.139] [0.870,1.108] [0.858,1.091] [0.860,1.091] [0.855,1.085]
Number of children under 5 0.614** 0.610** 0.616** 0.638** 0.609** 0.604** 0.615** 0.627**
  [0.389,0.971] [0.390,0.956] [0.395,0.962] [0.408,1.000] [0.398,0.930] [0.395,0.922] [0.404,0.937] [0.411,0.956]
Has Paid work 1.275 1.265 1.247 1.284 1.247 1.240 1.232 1.237
  [0.776,2.094] [0.778,2.057] [0.769,2.024] [0.789,2.090] [0.796,1.954] [0.795,1.935] [0.791,1.918] [0.793,1.929]
Child vaccination in the past 5 years 2.224* 2.010* 2.027* 1.997* 1.961* 1.830 1.833 1.823
  [0.977,5.059] [0.894,4.518] [0.902,4.555] [0.888,4.492] [0.940,4.093] [0.879,3.812] [0.882,3.808] [0.877,3.790]
N 397 397 397 397 391 391 391 391
  Completed Vacination at 10week (OPV2, Penta2, PCV2)
Completed Vacination at 14week (OPV3, Penta3, PCV3)
  (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16)
Fear of needles 0.379***       0.304***      
  [0.208,0.691]       [0.150,0.613]      
Fear of side effects   0.459***       0.544**    
    [0.260,0.808]       [0.299,0.991]    
Fear that vaccine has no benefit     0.529*       0.484*  
      [0.276,1.013]       [0.234,1.001]  
Fear that vaccine does harm       0.412***       0.411**
        [0.211,0.804]       [0.195,0.866]
Age (control: 20 or below)                
 21–25 0.901 0.971 0.943 0.886 1.051 1.121 1.094 1.031
  [0.500,1.627] [0.540,1.745] [0.526,1.689] [0.493,1.595] [0.570,1.940] [0.612,2.051] [0.597,2.002] [0.562,1.892]
 26–30 0.686 0.689 0.779 0.759 0.818 0.828 0.934 0.898
  [0.347,1.357] [0.350,1.357] [0.396,1.531] [0.385,1.494] [0.401,1.671] [0.409,1.675] [0.461,1.894] [0.443,1.820]
 31–35 0.699 0.836 0.863 0.816 0.777 0.923 0.981 0.916
  [0.311,1.572] [0.374,1.869] [0.386,1.932] [0.365,1.824] [0.330,1.831] [0.396,2.151] [0.417,2.306] [0.392,2.142]
 36 or above 0.790 0.967 0.982 0.959 0.818 1.000 1.036 1.001
  [0.261,2.392] [0.321,2.917] [0.327,2.945] [0.320,2.878] [0.248,2.695] [0.306,3.265] [0.316,3.396] [0.306,3.268]
Education (control: none)                
 Some primary 1.217 1.218 1.205 1.232 1.262 1.256 1.229 1.259
  [0.694,2.133] [0.697,2.130] [0.691,2.104] [0.704,2.154] [0.694,2.293] [0.695,2.268] [0.680,2.221] [0.696,2.277]
 Secondary and higher 1.362 1.328 1.381 1.409 1.465 1.452 1.484 1.517
  [0.834,2.223] [0.814,2.166] [0.850,2.244] [0.865,2.294] [0.876,2.451] [0.872,2.419] [0.893,2.468] [0.911,2.527]
Number of children 0.983 0.972 0.973 0.970 0.956 0.947 0.947 0.945
  [0.871,1.109] [0.862,1.096] [0.864,1.097] [0.861,1.093] [0.839,1.089] [0.833,1.077] [0.833,1.077] [0.831,1.075]
Number of children under 5 0.523*** 0.518*** 0.527*** 0.532*** 0.538** 0.544** 0.549** 0.555**
  [0.331,0.827] [0.328,0.820] [0.334,0.832] [0.336,0.843] [0.324,0.892] [0.329,0.900] [0.332,0.907] [0.335,0.921]
Has Paid work 1.101 1.084 1.082 1.084 0.825 0.827 0.812 0.816
  [0.707,1.715] [0.697,1.686] [0.697,1.680] [0.698,1.685] [0.516,1.318] [0.520,1.315] [0.510,1.294] [0.512,1.298]
Child vaccination in the past 5 years 2.127** 1.988* 1.978* 1.984* 1.944 1.768 1.752 1.766
  [1.010,4.479] [0.946,4.176] [0.945,4.143] [0.945,4.166] [0.865,4.369] [0.797,3.924] [0.791,3.882] [0.795,3.922]
N 386 386 386 386 383 383 383 383

The analysis sample is caregivers who have a child of 8 months old and younger and have no missing information on covariates. The result is based on the logistic regression. * significant at 10% ** significant at 5% *** significant at 1%.