Table 5.

Hierarchical Multiple Regression (HRM) predicting likelihood for initiation of COVID-19 vaccination among hesitant African Americans (n = 208).

Variables	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3		Model 4
	B	β	B	β	B	β	B	β
Vaccine-hesitant group (n = 228)
Constant	1.748		2.452		1.538		1.355
Age	−0.020 *	−0.214	−0.019 **	−0.199	−0.018 **	−0.195	−0.018 **	−0.193
Gender (ref: Female)
Male	0.332	0.112	−0.057	−0.019	−0.017	−0.006	−0.029	−0.010
Political Affiliation (ref: Republicans)
Democrats	0.739	0.249	0.317	0.107	0.074	0.025	0.069	0.023
Other, including independent	−0.128	−0.036	−0.331	−0.093	−0.194	−0.055	−0.222	−0.062
Religion Affiliation (ref: Christianity)
Atheist	−0.288	−0.054	−0.157	−0.029	0.262	0.049	.238	0.044
Others	0.399	0.110	0.343	0.095	0.159	0.044	0.164	0.045
Region (ref: South)
Midwest	0.349	0.097	0.235	0.065	−0.036	−0.010	0.002	0.010
West	0.165	0.043	0.073	0.019	−0.284	−0.074	−0.245	−0.064
Northeast	0.155	0.046	0.036	0.011	−0.196	−0.058	−0.144	−0.043
MTM Constructs
Participatory dialogue	-	-	0.169 **	0.587	0.106 **	0.367	0.106 **	0.370
Behavioral confidence	-	-	-	-	0.192 **	0.531	0.166 **	0.460
Changes in the physical environment	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.042	0.104
R2	0.159	-	0.470	-	0.663	-	0.670	-
F	4.156 **	-	17.464 **	-	35.133 **	-	32.944 **	-
Δ R2	0.159	-	0.311	-	0.194	-	0.006	-
Δ F	4.156 **	-	115.586 **	-	112.750 **	-	3.648 **	-

* p-value < 0.05; ** p-value < 0.001; Adjusted R² of initiation in the final model = 0.649.