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Table 3 Reasons for vaccine acceptance & refusal

From: Limits of the social-benefit motive among high-risk patients: a field experiment on influenza vaccination behaviour

Acceptance (n = 85)

Refusal (n = 137)

Self-protection

57 (67.1%)

Self-confidence

36 (26.3%)

Recommendation

7 (8.2%)

Current-conditions

36 (26.3%)

Others’-protection*

4 (4.7%)

Vaccine mistrust

21 (15.3%)

Being in risk group

3 (3.5%)

Inexperience

19 (13.9%)

Other or no reason

14 (16.5%)

Other or no reason

25 (18.3%)

  1. * Including “protection of self and others”