Table 1.
Differences between students who are willing versus unwilling to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in the future.
| Categorical Variables | Total | Unwilling to Get COVID-19 Vaccine | Willing to Get COVID-19 Vaccine | Univariate Analyses | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (N = 2058) | (N = 596) | (N = 1462) | |||||||
| N | % | N | % | N | % | χ2 | df | p | |
| Demographic information | |||||||||
| Male gender | 665 | 32.31 | 192 | 32.21 | 473 | 32.35 | 0.004 | 1 | 0.952 |
| Grade | |||||||||
| First | 1337 | 64.97 | 337 | 56.54 | 960 | 65.66 | 9.491 | 4 | 0.05 |
| Second | 393 | 19.10 | 134 | 22.48 | 259 | 17.72 | |||
| Third | 172 | 8.36 | 47 | 7.89 | 125 | 8.55 | |||
| Fourth | 79 | 3.84 | 15 | 2.52 | 64 | 4.38 | |||
| Fifth | 77 | 3.74 | 23 | 3.86 | 54 | 3.69 | |||
| Health-related major | 1158 | 56.27 | 258 | 43.29 | 900 | 61.56 | 57.439 | 1 | <0.001 |
| Residence (Urban) | 829 | 40.28 | 215 | 36.07 | 614 | 41.99 | 6.176 | 1 | 0.013 |
| Perceived health status as good | 1580 | 76.77 | 467 | 78.36 | 1113 | 76.13 | 1.178 | 1 | 0.278 |
| COVID-19 related information | |||||||||
| Had been infected with COVID-19 or had infected family members | 11 | 0.53 | 3 | 0.50 | 8 | 0.55 | -a | -a | 0.999 |
| Worried about being infected with COVID-19 | |||||||||
| No | 329 | 15.99 | 109 | 18.29 | 220 | 15.05 | 4.653 | 2 | 0.098 |
| Fair | 1327 | 64.48 | 383 | 64.26 | 944 | 64.57 | |||
| Very much | 402 | 19.53 | 104 | 17.45 | 298 | 20.38 | |||
| Knowledge, attitude, belief towards COVID-19 vaccine | |||||||||
| Heard about COVID-19 vaccines previously | 1745 | 84.79 | 425 | 71.31 | 1320 | 90.29 | 118.257 | 1 | <0.001 |
| Believe COVID-19 vaccines could provide protection | 978 | 47.52 | 191 | 38.51 | 787 | 53.83 | 80.561 | 1 | <0.001 |
| Believe COVID-19 vaccines are safe | 443 | 21.53 | 61 | 10.23 | 382 | 26.13 | 63.316 | 1 | <0.001 |
| Continues Variable | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | t/Z | df | p |
| Age (years) | 19.89 | 2.17 | 19.87 | 1.99 | 19.89 | 2.23 | −1.702 | -b | 0.089 |
| BMI | 23.52 | 7.74 | 23.47 | 7.97 | 23.54 | 7.65 | −1.672 | -b | 0.095 |
| BAS-2 | 3.53 | 0.87 | 3.34 | 0.92 | 3.61 | 0.84 | −6.379 | 2056 | <0.001 |
Bolded values: p < 0.05; COVID-19: Coronavirus Disease 2019; BAS-2: Body Appreciation Scale-2; SD: standard deviation; BMI: Body Mass Index; a Fisher’s Exact Test; b Mann-Whitney U Test.