Table 3.

Vaccine Hesitancy Scale Scores Among Parents of Children With Kidney Disease or Hypertension by Willingness to Vaccine Child Against COVID-19

	Willingness to Vaccinate Child Against COVID-19 (N = 207)			Pa
	No (n = 52)	Unsure (n = 80)	Yes (n = 75)
Vaccine Hesitancy Scaleb score for
General childhood vaccines	2.6 ± 0.8	1.9 ± 0.6	1.5 ± 0.5	<0.001
Influenza vaccines	2.9 ± 1.0	2.1 ± 0.9	1.5 ± 0.6	<0.001

Scores given as mean ± SD.

^aANOVA test to examine differences in Vaccine Hesitancy Scale scores among the 3 groups (“no,” “unsure,” and “yes”).

^bHigher scores on Vaccine Hesitancy Scale¹⁶ indicate increased hesitancy. A score of ≥3 indicates high hesitancy.