Table 2 Socio-demographic profiles of parents holding different views on HPV vaccination without parental consent.
Vaccination without parental consent | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Characteristic | Positive % (No) | Less Positive (%) No | Other % (No) | Total % (No)† | p value* |
Parental Age (years) | |||||
≤30 | 47.1 (8) | 41.2 (7) | 11.8 (2) | 7.1 (17) | |
31 – 40 | 36.4 (40) | 45.5 (50) | 18.2 (20) | 46.2 (110) | |
> 40 | 42.3 (47) | 35.1 (39) | 22.5 (25) | 46.6 (111) | 0.5 |
Child receives free school meals | |||||
No | 45.5 (80) | 36.9 (65) | 17.6 (31) | 73.6 (176) | |
Yes | 30.2 (19) | 46.0 (65) | 23.8 (15) | 26.4 (63) | 0.1 |
Religion | |||||
None | 46.3 (19) | 36.6 (15) | 17.1 (7) | 17.1 (17) | |
Catholic | 32.7 (16) | 32.7 (16) | 36.2 (17) | 20.4 (49) | |
Protestant | 44.2 (50) | 41.6 (47) | 14.2 (16) | 47.1 (113) | |
Muslim | 33.3 (6) | 50.0 (9) | 16.7 (3) | 7.5 (18) | 0.2 |
Ethnic Group | |||||
White | 45.5 (75) | 32.1 (53) | 22.4 (37) | 67.6 (165) | |
Black Caribbean | 39.1 (9) | 47.8 (11) | 13.0 (3) | 9.4 (23) | |
Black African | 27.8 (5) | 50.0 (9) | 22.2 (4) | 7.4 (18) | |
India Sub-continent | 28.6 (8) | 57.1 (16) | 14.3 (4) | 11.5 (28) | |
Others‡ | 20.0 (2) | 80.0 (8) | 0.0 (0) | 4.1 (10) | 0.03 |