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Table 4 Frequency (Percent) of Parental Preference for Opt-In vs. Opt-Out and Immunization Registry (IRs) Support by Child's Vaccination Status

From: Support for immunization registries among parents of vaccinated and unvaccinated school-aged children: a case control study

 

Vaccinated

Exempt for Any Antigens

Unadjusted Odds Ratio and 95% CIa,b

Number of Antigens Exempt For

    

1

2–5

6–9

10

Prefer Opt-Inc

(32.7)

133 (50.0)

2.06 (1.55–2.71)

11 (35.5)

32 (44.4)

35 (63.6)

55 (50.9)*

Prefer Opt-Outd

342 (36.0)

54 (20.3)

0.45 (0.33–0.63)

10 (32.2)

19 (26.4)

6 (10.9)

19 (17.6)*

Don't Know

297 (31.3)

79 (29.7)

0.93 (0.69–1.25)

10 (32.3)

21 (29.2)

14 (25.5)

34 (31.5)

Total

950 (100.0%)

266 (100.0%)

 

31 (100.0%)

72 (100.0%)

55 (100.0%)

108 (100.0%)

Support IR regardless of choice

334 (34.7)

25 (9.3)

0.18 (0.12–0.28)

9 (30.0)

8 (11.3)

3 (5.3)

5 (4.5)*

Support IR because of choice

347 (36.0)

97 (36.1)

1.00 (0.76–1.33)

13 (43.3)

33 (46.5)

22 (38.6)

29 (26.1)

Do not support IR

72 (7.5)

76 (28.3)

4.87 (3.41–6.97)

2 (6.7)

16 (22.5)

20 (35.1)

38 (34.2)*

Don't Know

210 (21.8)

71 (26.3)

1.29 (0.95–1.77)

6 (20.0)

14 (19.7)

12 (21.0)

39 (35.2)*

Total

963 (100.0%)

269 (100.0%)

 

30 (100.0%)

71 (100.0%)

57 (100.0%)

111 (100.0%)

  1. a: Odds Ratio compares parents of children exempt for any antigens to parents of vaccinated children. Interpretation of odd ratio: Parents of exempt children had about 3 times as high odds of preferring opt-in compared with parents of vaccinated children.
  2. b: Odds Ratio in Bold P-Value < 0.05
  3. * Trend test is statistically significant at <0.05
  4. c: "opt-in" requires parental permission before any information about the child is entered into the registry
  5. d: "opt-out" registry is automatically populated using birth registry or other means and parents can then have all or part of their child's information removed