Table 4.
Reasons for not having the influenza or pneumonia vaccination
| Reasons | First round |
Second round |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Influenza 118(%) |
Pneumonia 43(%) |
Influenza 285(%) |
Pneumonia 243(%) |
|
| Belief that one is unlikely to be infected with influenza or pneumonia | 80(67.8) | 30(69.8) | 212(74.4) | 188(77.4) |
| Potential for allergic reaction | 2(1.7) | 1(2.3) | 3(1.1) | 7(2.9) |
| Concerns about adverse reactions that might occur with vaccination | 1(0.8) | 0(0.0) | 4(1.4) | 4(1.6) |
| Lack of confidence that vaccinations are effective for the common cold or pneumonia | 1(0.8) | 3(7.0) | 9(3.2) | 7(2.9) |
| Lack of confidence that vaccinations are effective for influenza | 8(6.8) | - | 9(3.2) | - |
| Experience with friends being vaccinated but the vaccine not seeming to be effective | 1(0.8) | 2(4.7) | 3(1.1) | 1(0.4) |
| Lack of knowledge of when to vaccinate | 5(4.2) | 2(4.7) | 12(4.2) | 10(4.1) |
| Lack of recommendation of vaccination | 8(6.8) | 4(9.3) | 14(4.9) | 13(5.3) |
| Belief that the disease would not likely become severe even if one were infected with influenza or pneumonia | 6(5.1) | 0(0.0) | 3(1.1) | 2(0.8) |
| Belief that the influenza is the same as common cold and that no special attention required | 1(0.8) | - | 4(1.4) | - |
| Inability to afford the vaccination | 3(2.5) | 0(0.0) | 9(3.2) | 9(3.7) |
| Others | 1(0.8) | 1(2.3) | 3(1.1) | 1(0.4) |
| Missing | 1(0.8) | 0(0.0) | 0(0.0) | 1(0.4) |