Factor | Negative associations | Null associations | Positive associations | ||||||
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Logistic regression | Other analysis | Logistic regression | Other analysis | Logistic regression | Other analysis | ||||
N | Range OR | N | N | Range OR | N | N | Range OR | N | |
1. Knowledge | |||||||||
a. Vaccine contraindications. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |||
2. Beliefs | |||||||||
a. Vaccines are more risky than beneficial. | 3 | 0,04-0,37* | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
b. Vaccine low efficacy and benefit and low susceptibility and severity of the disease. | 2 | 0,04-0,06 | 1 | 2 | 0,54-1,39* | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
c. Use of alternative medicine theories | 1 | 0,24*-0,44* | 1 | 1 | 0,6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
d. More individualist than social orientation of the health care. | 2 | 0,28*-0,59* | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
e. Cost-to-parent is a deterrent to vaccination. | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1,54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
f. Another needle is a deterrent to vaccination. | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0,79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
g. Stocking the vaccine is a problem. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
h. People are adequately informed about vaccine. | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1,5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
i. Theories of conspiration, influence of the farmaceutical industry on the policy makers in immunization. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
j. Behavior in vaccination is mostly conditioned by physician's beliefs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
k. Chiropractors should counsel about immunization. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
3.Attitudes | |||||||||
a. Have some concerns about immunization. | 1 | 0,32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
b. Concerned about vaccine’s side effects. | 1 | 0,49* | 0 | 1 | 0,31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
c. Low confidence in Public Healthcare information or national recommendations. | 2 | 0,27-0,35* | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
d. Consider the disease serious enough to warrant using a vaccine or give importance to the vaccination. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
e. Number of injections the physician considers giving at one visit (4 vs less and 5 vs less). | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8,69 and 17,29 | 0 | ||
f. Perceive to have a role in vaccination. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
g. Preference for combined vaccine than for separate. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
h. Concerned about (A) vaccine immunity may not be life-long (B) will lead to more serious disease in adults. | 0 | 0 | 1 | A) 0,6 B)1,08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
i. Not having adopted the new recommendations in use of polio vaccine (still using Sabin vs Salk). | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
j. It should be allowed to send unvaccinated children to school. | 1 | 0,58* | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |