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Table 1 Willingness and student characteristics of a sample of Dutch university students

From: Determinants of students' willingness to accept a measles–mumps–rubella booster vaccination during a mumps outbreak: a cross-sectional study

Item

Characteristic

Study subjects (%)

Willing to be vaccinated (%)

 

n=687

n=408/676

Gender

Male

345 (50.2)

199 (48.8)

Female

342 (49.8)

209 (51.2)

 

n=683

n=404/672

Year of study

1

260 (38.1)

167 (65.5)

2

147 (21.5)

92 (63.4)

3

134 (19.6)

66 (50.4)

≥4

142 (20.8)

79 (56.0)

 

 n=687

n=408/676

University city

Nijmegen

119 (17.3)

69 (58.0)

Eindhoven

119 (17.3)

67 (56.3)

Utrecht

122 (17.8)

68 (58.1)

Delft

102 (14.8)

76 (75.2)

Amsterdam

121 (17.6)

61 (51.7)

Maastricht

104 (15.1)

67 (65.7)

 

n=682

n=406/671

Study programmea

Social sciences, Business, Law

226 (33.1)

129 (58.1)

Technique, Industry, Engineering

179 (26.2)

113 (63.5)

Healthcare, and Welfare

141 (20.7)

82 (59.0)

Physics Mathematics, IT

55 (8.1)

42 (76.4)

Linguistics, History, Arts

39 (5.7)

14 (37.8)

Other

42 (6.2)

26 (65.0)

  1. abased on the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) division [35]