Table 2.
Medical students’ demographic characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy (n = 612)
| Factor | n (%) | VHS total points (  ± S) |
F | P | Factor | n (%) | VHS total points (  ± S) |
F | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | 2.575 | 0.109 | College | 1.620 | 0.168 | ||||
| Male | 225 (36.8) | 23.31 ± 6.39 | Clinical medicine | 149 (24.3) | 23.22 ± 5.89 | ||||
| Female | 387 (63.2) | 22.52 ± 5.60 | Nursing | 252 (41.2) | 22.23 ± 5.52 | ||||
| Nation | 3.588 | 0.059 | Preventive medicine | 83 (13.6) | 22.43 ± 6.03 | ||||
| Non-minority | 568 (92.8) | 22.68 ± 5.96 | Pharmacy | 76 (12.4) | 23.83 ± 5.90 | ||||
| Minority | 44 (7.2) | 24.43 ± 4.89 | Basic Medicine | 52 (8.5) | 23.52 ± 7.30 | ||||
| Monthly household income | 2.255 | 0.106 | Suffered from respiratory diseases in the past year | 1.211 | 0.272 | ||||
| < $780, | 181 (29.6) | 22.65 ± 6.03 | |||||||
| $780-$1,561 | 252 (41.2) | 23.37 ± 5.93 | Yes | 139 (22.7) | 22.32 ± 5.26 | ||||
| > $1,561 | 179 (29.2) | 22.17 ± 5.71 | No | 473 (77.3) | 22.95 ± 6.08 | ||||
| Family address | 22.242 | 0.000 | History of influenza vaccination | 9.737 | 0.002 | ||||
| In Wuhan | 178 (29.1) | 21.08 ± 6.17 | Vaccinated | 51 (8.3) | 20.35 ± 6.80 | ||||
| Not in Wuhan | 434 (70.9) | 23.52 ± 5.65 | Unvaccinated | 561 (91.7) | 23.03 ± 5.77 | ||||
| Education level | 16.725 | 0.000 | Religious belief | 0.573 | 0.449 | ||||
| Postgraduate | 207 (33.8) | 21.46 ± 6.76 | Non-religious | 521 (85.1) | 22.73 ± 5.61 | ||||
| Undergraduate | 405 (66.2) | 23.50 ± 5.30 | Religious | 91 (14.9) | 23.24 ± 7.41 | ||||
| Training related to COVID-19 vaccines | 31.329 | 0.000 | |||||||
| Trained | 197 (32.2) | 20.91 ± 5.69 | |||||||
| Not trained | 415 (67.8) | 23.71 ± 5.80 | |||||||
Annotation: VHS= Vaccine Hesitancy Scale