Racial differences in institutional trust and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and refusal

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Bayesian regression model results (standardized): vaccine hesitancy

Predictor	Estimate	Posterior SD	p (one-tailed)	95% CI
Predictor	Estimate	Posterior SD	p (one-tailed)	LL	UL
Gender (male is reference group)	0.078	0.033	0.018^*	0.004	0.143
Age	−0.195	0.039	0.000^*	− 0.274	− 0.121
Education	− 0.104	0.039	0.002^*	−0.191	− 0.035
White (not White is reference group)	−0.078	0.030	0.002^*	−0.141	−0.024
Latinx (not Latinx is reference group)	0.000	0.032	0.504	−0.064	0.062
Household Size	−0.012	0.031	0.353	−0.074	0.045
Total Family Income	−0.147	0.035	0.002^*	−0.211	−e0.078
Trust in Information from the Scientific Community	−0.155	0.036	0.000^*	−0.230	−0.088
Trust in Government Actions Regarding COVID-19	−0.107	0.039	0.002^*	−0.184	−0.032
Model R²	0.211	0.025	0.000^*	0.1563	0.258

Note: CI credible interval, LL lower limit, UL upper limit; ^* = significant at p < .025

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