Table 1.

Study participants’ characteristics (n = 1,135)

	Providers who don’t vaccinate pregnant women in their practice (n = 503)a		Providers who vaccinate pregnant women in their practice (n = 632)a		Total (n = 1135)
Characteristics	N	%	N	%	N	%	P value
Profession
Family Physician/General practitioner	66	13.1	236	37.3	302	26.6	<.0001
Obstetrician-gynecologist	200	39.8	73	11.6	273	24.1
Midwife	190	37.8	28	4.4	218	19.2
Nurse	26	5.2	194	30.7	220	19.4
Pharmacist	18	3.6	95	15.0	113	10.0
Other	3	0.6	6	0.9	9	0.8
Gender
Male	57	11.3	54	8.6	111	9.8	.016
Female	433	86.1	568	90.6	1001	88.6
Other	13	2.6	5	0.8	18	1.6
Number of years of practice
Less than a year	50	10.0	35	5.6	85	7.5	<.0001
1–9 y	192	38.3	211	33.5	403	35.6
10–19 y	141	28.1	155	24.6	296	26.2
20–29 y	68	13.6	125	19.8	193	17.1
≥30 y	50	10.0	104	16.5	154	13.6
Professional training
Mostly received in Canada	447	89.4	592	94.6	1039	92.3	.0016
Mostly received outside Canada	53	10.6	34	5.4	87	7.7
N of pregnant patients seen each week
21 or more	291	58.4	171	27.5	462	41.3	<.0001
From 11 to 20	107	21.5	96	15.4	203	18.1
From 6 to 10	54	10.8	130	20.9	184	16.4
5 or less	46	9.2	225	36.2	271	24.2
Missing	5	-	10	-	15	-
Have received the flu vaccine during the 2016/17 season
Yes	373	74.2	578	91.5	951	83.8	<.0001
No	130	25.8	54	8.5	184	16.2
Have recommended the flu vaccine during the 2016/17 season
To all of my pregnant patients	264	52.5	495	78.7	759	67.0	<.0001
To some of my pregnant patients	158	31.4	97	15.4	255	22.5
To none of my pregnant patients	39	7.8	8	1.3	47	4.2
Don’t know/Prefer not to answer	42	8.3	29	4.6	71	6.3

^aMissing answers are excluded in the calculations of percentages.