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. 2022 Mar 28;70(3):123–131. doi: 10.1016/j.respe.2022.02.004

Table 2.

Univariate multinomial regression models of the associations between being “hesitant” or “anti-vaccination”, compared to being “pro-vaccination” (N=1640)

Anti-vaccination vs Pro-vaccination
Hesitant vs Pro-vaccination
OR 95 % CIs OR 95 % CIs
SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
Sex Female vs Male 1.81 [1.29-2.56] 1.52 [1.01-2.29]
Age (years) ≥ 35 vs 18-34 0.67 [0.46-0.99] 1.07 [0.71-1.63]
Marital status Single vs Couple 1.02 [0.79-1.31] 1.28 [0.94-1.76]
Having children No vs Yes 1.46 [0.98-2.18] 1.12 [0.71-1.77]
Student Yes vs No 1.04 [0.79-1.37] 0.84 [0.61-1.17]
Study or work in the health domain Yes vs No 0.44 [0.33-0.59] 0.76 [0.55-1.05]
Self-perceived health Good vs Bad 0.82 [0.57-1.17] 0.71 [0.46-1.09]
Lifelong medical history* Yes vs No 0.77 [0.60-0.99] 0.81 [0.59-1.11]
Up-to-date vaccination
No vs Yes 1.90 [1.18-3.06] 0.62 [0.26-1.45]
I do not know vs Yes 2.12 [1.42-3.18] 0.93 [0.50-1.74]
Not being vaccinated against flu each year 4.48 [3.00-6.69] 1.51 [1.05-2.17]
ANSWERS RELATED TO COVID-19
Degree of concern about Covid-19 as a health issue
Low worry (1-2) vs High worry (4-5) 1.13 [0.76-1.68] 1.15 [0.69-1.93]
Medium worry (3) vs High worry (4-5) 1.06 [0.65-1.71] 1.56 [0.87-2.80]
Perceived Dangerousness of Covid-19
Low worry (0-3) vs High worry (7-10) 1.04 [0.74-1.46] 1.14 [0.75-1.73]
Medium worry (4-6) vs High worry (7-10) 0.88 [0.66-1.17] 0.91 [0.64-1.31]
Agreeing with the fact that the epidemic will last
several months and that our lives will strongly and durably affected Yes vs No
0.94 [0.69-1.29] 0.89 [0.60-1.31]
Trust in the discovery of a treatment
No vs Yes 2.33 [1.46-3.73] 0.44 [0.14-1.43]
I do not know vs Yes 1.25 [0.89-1.77] 2.73 [1.92-3.88]
Ready to undergo a treatment against Covid-19 that has yet to be conclusively proven effective
No vs Yes 8.41 [5.94-11.92] 1.50 [0.72-3.11]
I do not know vs Yes 2.04 [1.41-2.96] 7.75 [5.47-10.99]
Trust in public authorities to control the pandemic
Low trust (0-3) vs High trust (7-10) 2.28 [1.64-3.16] 1.76 [1.16-2.68]
Medium trust (4-6) vs High trust (7-10) 1.29 [0.92-1.81] 1.62 [1.08-2.42]
KNOWLEDGE-RELATED SCALES
Scale on knowledge and beliefs about vaccination Bad (6-18) vs Good (19-30) 5.85 [4.22-8.12] 1.85 [1.13-3.02]
Digital Vaccine Literacy scale Bad (7-20) vs Good (21-33) 2.10 [1.60-2.77] 2.19 [1.56-3.07]
Capacity to detect fake news scale Bad (0-5) vs Good (6-8) 1.98 [1.43-2.73] 2.03 [1.37-3.00]
General health literacy scale Bad (0-9) vs Good (10-15) 1.66 [1.28-2.14] 1.57 [1.14-2.16]

At least one among the following : cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, chronic digestive disease, cancer, asthma or other respiratory disease, mental illness, other

OR : Odds Ratio ; 95 % CIs : Confidence Interval at 95 %.