The acceptability of three vaccine injections given to infants during a single clinic visit in South Africa

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Associations between caregiver and infant characteristics with selected variables measuring acceptability and acceptance of multiple injections to caregivers and vaccinators

	Cross variable (n = 229)
Variable (n = 229)	Satisfaction with injection	Satisfaction with vaccinator	Will recommend multiple injections	Will come for multiple injections again	Injections too many	Caregiver understanding of immunization purpose	Caregiver knowledge of diseases immunised against
Caregiver	Chi2 P-value	Chi2 P-value	Chi2 P-value	Chi2 P-value	Chi2 P-value	Chi2 P-value	Chi2 P-value
Age	0.821	0.564	0.339	0.792	0.086	0.158	0.022
Gender	0.633	0.740	0.987	0.775	0.106	0.567	0.011
Relationship to child	0.422	0.577	0.002	<0.001	0.213	0.676	0.612
Education	0.677	0.859	<0.001	<0.001	0.803	0.879	0.699
Marital status	0.383	0.297	0.256	0.607	0.249
Reasons for visiting clinic today	0.824	0.300	0.665	0.805	0.058	0.253	0.873
Infant
Infant age	0.656	0.007	0.343	0.642	0.839	0.713	0.164
Infant gender	0.669	0.434	0.381	0.439	0.674	0.138	0.512
Number of injections received at visit	0.469	0.243	0.995	0.967	0.438	<0.001	0.560
	Cross variable (n = 98)
Vaccinator characteristics (n = 98)	Concern about giving 3 injections	Reasons for concerns	Injections too many	Unhappiness from caregivers of infants 6 week old	Unhappiness from caregivers of infants >6 weeks	Information giving importance	Protocol Used
	Chi2 P-value	Chi2 P-value	Chi2 P-value	Chi2 P-value	Chi2 P-value	Chi2 P-value	Chi2 P-value
Age	0.867	0.025	0.469	0.786	0.739	0.236	0.136
Gender	0.500	0.705	0.810	0.285	0.238	0.749	0.576
Experience administering EPI	0.403	0.788	0.340	0.705	0.340	0.578	0.187
Years of EPI training	0.436	0.232	0.877	0.873	0.780	0.864	0.639

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