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

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Bayesian regression model results (standardized): vaccine refusal

Predictor	Estimate	Posterior SD	p (one-tailed)	95% CI
Predictor	Estimate	Posterior SD	p (one-tailed)	LL	UL
Gender (male is reference group)	0.004	0.031	0.437	−0.059	0.063
Age	−0.225	0.033	0.000^*	−0.296	−0.164
Education	−0.099	0.034	0.000^*	−0.171	−0.035
White (not White is reference group)	−0.005	0.030	0.441	−0.066	−0.052
Latinx (not Latinx is reference group)	0.011	0.029	0.349	−0.050	0.065
Household Size	−0.001	0.031	0.485	−0.064	0.060
Total Family Income	−0.018	0.033	0.289	−0.085	−0.042
Trust in Information from the Scientific Community	−0.333	0.030	0.000^*	−0.399	−0.278
Trust in Government Actions Regarding COVID-19	−0.304	0.032	0.000^*	−0.362	−0.239
Model R²	0.452	0.027	0.000^*	−2.864	−1.976

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

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