Table 1.
Characteristics of the quantitative study population
| All parents (N=1390) | By PACV score | P value | |||||
| Non-VH parents (N=889) | VH parents (N=501) | ||||||
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | |||||
| Female respondent | 1232 | (89%) | 798 | (90) | 434 | (87) | 0.141* |
| Relationship to child | 0.095* | ||||||
| Mother | 1228 | (88) | 797 | (90) | 431 | (86) | |
| Father | 155 | (11) | 89 | (10) | 66 | (13) | |
| Other | 7 | (1) | 3 | (0) | 4 | (1) | |
| Interviewee age (Mean (SD)) | 37.1 | (6.27) | 37 | (6.16) | 37.2 | (6.46) | 0.592† |
| Born in Switzerland | 981 | (71) | 608 | (68) | 373 | (74) | 0.059* |
| Parent’s highest education | <0.001* | ||||||
| Low‡ | 272 | (20) | 188 | (21) | 84 | (17) | |
| Medium§ | 321 | (23) | 209 | (24) | 112 | (22) | |
| Bachelors¶ | 285 | (21) | 163 | (18) | 122 | (24) | |
| Masters | 358 | (26) | 226 | (25) | 132 | (26) | |
| Doctorate | 105 | (8) | 81 | (9) | 24 | (5) | |
| Other, missing | 49 | (4) | 22 | (2) | 27 | (5) | |
| Household income | <0.001* | ||||||
| <CHF80 000 | 319 | (23) | 174 | (20) | 145 | (29) | |
| CHF80 000–CHF120 000 | 384 | (28) | 225 | (25) | 159 | (32) | |
| >CHF120 000 | 279 | (20) | 195 | (22) | 84 | (17) | |
| Missing, declined to respond | 408 | (29) | 295 | (33) | 113 | (23) | |
| Type of primary provider | <0.001* | ||||||
| Biomedical | 893 | (64) | 705 | (79) | 188 | 38 | |
| CAM | 490 | (35) | 183 | (21) | 307 | (61) | |
| Missing | 7 | (1) | 1 | (0) | 6 | (1) | |
*Pearson’s χ2.
†Wilcoxon rank-sum tests were used for statistical analysis.
‡Secondary school not completed, no completed professional education, completed 9 years of school without further education, apprenticeship, technical school or business school.
§College, higher professional school.
¶Bachelor at university, primary school teacher seminar.
CAM, complementary and alternative medicine; PACV, Parent Attitudes about Childhood Vaccines; VH, vaccine hesitant.