TABLE 3.
Descriptive statistics and comparisons of individual characteristics of parents based on their decision to vaccinate their child for COVID‐19. Significant differences (p < .05) are marked in bold
| Child vaccine decision | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | I do not know | No | Comparison | ||||||
| M (SD) | n (%) | M (SD) | n (%) | M (SD) | n (%) | F | χ2 | p | |
| Parental role | ‐ | 11.0 | .004 | ||||||
| Mother | ‐ | 59 (14.2) | ‐ | 96 (23.1) | ‐ | 52 (12.5) | |||
| Father | ‐ | 90 (21.7) | ‐ | 84 (20.2) | ‐ | 34 (8.2) | |||
| Child's age range | ‐ | 7.07 | .029 | ||||||
| 5–7 | ‐ | 64 (15.4) | ‐ | 98 (23.6) | ‐ | 51 (12.3) | |||
| 8–11 | ‐ | 85 (20.5) | ‐ | 82 (19.8) | ‐ | 35 (8.4) | |||
| Parent vaccine record | ‐ | 141 | <.001 | ||||||
| Vaccinated | ‐ | 148 (36.5) | ‐ | 175 (43.2) | ‐ | 44 (10.9) | |||
| Unvaccinated | ‐ | 1 (.2) | ‐ | 2 (.5) | ‐ | 35 (8.6) | |||
| Education level | ‐ | 24.4 | .002 | ||||||
| Middle school | ‐ | 11 (2.7) | ‐ | 8 (1.9) | ‐ | 6 (1.4) | |||
| High school | ‐ | 66 (15.9) | ‐ | 105 (25.3) | ‐ | 54 (13.0) | |||
| Bachelor's degree | ‐ | 14 (3.4) | ‐ | 23 (5.5) | ‐ | 14 (3.4) | |||
| Graduate/Master | ‐ | 48 (11.6) | ‐ | 41 (9.9) | ‐ | 11 (2.7) | |||
| MD/PhD | ‐ | 10 (2.4) | ‐ | 3 (.7) | ‐ | 1 (.2) | |||
| Info sources index | 2.37 (.51) | ‐ | 2.37 (.58) | ‐ | 2.22 (.64) | ‐ | 2.07 a | ‐ | .13 |
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