Vaccination Decision-Making and HPV Knowledge: How Informed and Engaged Are Young Adult HPV Vaccine Recipients in Australia?
Table 3
Vaccination decision-making amongst school-based and population-based HPV vaccine recipients.
School-based recipients ()
Population-based recipients ()
Significance
Mean
SD
% Agreed+
Mean
SD
% Agreed+
Decision-making total
51.3
7.3
57.5
7.2
−3.38
0.001*
Decision-making items
I received HPV vaccine because parents told me to#
4.2
1.4
48.8
4.3
1.7
55.0
−0.244
0.808
I received HPV vaccine because school told me to#
5.1
1.4
72.0
3.1
1.7
30.0
5.663
<0.001*
I received HPV vaccine because doctor told me to#
3.8
1.4
24.4
4.4
1.8
65.0
−0.687
0.095∧
I received HPV vaccine because all of my friends received it#
4.5
1.4
58.5
3.3
1.7
25.0
3.477
0.001*
I received HPV vaccine because of government advertisements#
5.0
1.2
72.0
4.4
1.8
70.0
1.482
0.152
I did not think about receiving HPV vaccine#
3.5
1.7
23.2
2.8
1.4
10.0
1.907
0.059∧
I feel I made the decision to receive HPV vaccine
5.3
1.1
85.4
5.8
0.9
95.0
−0.615
0.109
I feel I played a part in the HPV vaccine decision
5.3
1.0
86.6
5.8
1.1
95.0
−1.621
0.108
I feel I should have thought more about the HPV vaccine#
3.8
1.5
30.5
2.9
1.4
15.0
2.658
0.009*
I feel I weighed up all of the HPV vaccine information I had
3.8
1.3
26.8
4.0
1.3
35.0
−0.603
0.548
I regret receiving the HPV vaccine#
1.7
1.0
1.2
1.6
0.9
0.0
0.711
0.479
I feel I received adequate information at the time of HPV vaccination
4.6
1.3
56.1
4.5
1.5
55.0
0.185
0.854
*Statistically significant at the level. ∧Apparent trend however failed to reach statistical significance.
#Reverse-coded in the overall score; however individual items are not reverse-scored to facilitate direct interpretation of participant responses based on each item.
+Percentage of participants who answered Agree/Strongly Agree/Very Strongly Agree.
