Table 1.
Description of the study sample.
| Total | COVID-19 Vaccine Intentions | Beliefs in RCT 1 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refusal | Hesitancy | ||||||||||
| N | % | N | % | p-value | N | % | p-value | N | % | p-value | |
| Sex | |||||||||||
| Male | 229 | 49.9 | 45 | 45.0 | n.s. | 51 | 50.0 | n.s. | 55 | 48.7 | n.s |
| Female | 230 | 50.1 | 55 | 55.0 | 51 | 50.0 | 58 | 51.3 | |||
| Age | |||||||||||
| 18–34 | 81 | 17.6 | 22 | 22.0 | 0.001 | 23 | 22.5 | 0.015 | 15 | 13.3 | n.s. |
| 35–49 | 150 | 32.7 | 44 | 44.0 | (1–4 *) | 40 | 39.2 | (1–4 *) | 36 | 31.9 | |
| 50–65 | 106 | 23.1 | 21 | 21.0 | (2–4 **) | 24 | 23.5 | (2–4 *) | 30 | 26.5 | |
| 66–99 | 122 | 26.6 | 13 | 13.0 | 15 | 14.7 | 32 | 28.3 | |||
| Marital status | |||||||||||
| Married/partnership | 288 | 62.7 | 57 | 57.0 | n.s. | 59 | 57.8 | n.s. | 70 | 61.9 | n.s. |
| Single/divorced/widow(er) | 171 | 37.3 | 43 | 43.0 | 43 | 42.2 | 43 | 38.1 | |||
| Economic status | |||||||||||
| Student | 14 | 3.1 | 2 | 2.0 | 0.003 | 6 | 5.9 | n.s. | 1 | 0.9 | n.s. |
| Employee | 202 | 44.0 | 47 | 47.0 | (4–5 *) | 48 | 47.1 | 44 | 38.9 | ||
| Self-employed | 30 | 6.5 | 11 | 11.0 | 3 | 2.9 | 8 | 7.1 | |||
| Disabled/old-age pensioner | 173 | 37.7 | 25 | 25.0 | 33 | 32.4 | 49 | 43.4 | |||
| Household 2/unemployed | 40 | 8.7 | 15 | 15.0 | 12 | 11.8 | 11 | 9.7 | |||
| Education level | |||||||||||
| Elementary | 31 | 6.8 | 9 | 9.0 | n.s. | 5 | 4.9 | n.s. | 8 | 7.1 | n.s. |
| Secondaryvocational | 174 | 37.9 | 46 | 46.0 | 48 | 47.1 | 52 | 46.0 | |||
| Secondary graduation | 130 | 28.3 | 22 | 22.0 | 30 | 29.4 | 36 | 31.9 | |||
| College | 124 | 27.0 | 23 | 23.0 | 19 | 18.6 | 17 | 15.0 | |||
| Affiliation | |||||||||||
| Member of a church | 131 | 28.5 | 23 | 23.0 | n.s. | 28 | 27.5 | n.s. | 26 | 23.0 | n.s. |
| Non-affiliated | 328 | 71.5 | 77 | 77.0 | 74 | 72.5 | 87 | 77.0 | |||
| Total | 459 | 100.0 | 100 | 21.8 | 102 | 22.2 | 113 | 24.6 | |||
Notes: 1 believing in at least one religious conspiracy theory; 2 including maternity leave; n.s. = non-significant. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01. The p-value stands for comparison of all groups; results in parentheses show multiple-group comparison with Bonferroni correction.