Research Article
Parents’ Attitude about Hepatitis B Disease and Practice of Hepatitis B Vaccination among Children in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Table 2
The association between HepB vaccination of children and baseline characteristics of parents and children (n=768).
| | | Full and timely HepB vaccination | p –value | | Yes (260) | No (508) |
| | Baseline characteristics of parent | | | | | Gender of parents/ caregivers | | | | | Male | 48(18.5) | 98(19.3) | 0.80 | | Female | 211(81.5) | 410(80.7) | | | Residence location | | | | | Urban | 144(55.6) | 421(82.9) | <0.001 | | Rural | 115(44.4) | 87(17.1) | | | Education | | | | | < Primary school | 43(16.6) | 73(14.4) | 0.706 | | Secondary school | 77(29.7) | 152(29.9) | | | > High school | 139(53.7) | 283(55.7) | | | Occupation | | | | | Government officer/Staff | 55(22.1) | 87(17.8) | 0.534 | | Housewife | 88(35.3) | 176(36.1) | | | Seller/ Retail | 30(12.1) | 59(12.1) | | | Worker | 76(30.5) | 166(34.0) | | | Age (years) | | | | | <25 | 24(9.3) | 44(8.7) | 0.960 | | 25- 40 | 219(84.5) | 433(85.2) | | | ≥40 | 16(6.2) | 31(6.1) | | | Gross household income | | | | | Poor, near-poor households | 8(3.2) | 28(5.9) | 0.111 | | Moderate | 243(96.8) | 448(94.1) | | | Number of Children in household | | | | 1 | 119(45.9) | 256(50.4) | 0.470 | | 2 | 115(44.4) | 203(40.0) | | | ≥ 3 | 25(9.7) | 49(9.6) | | | Having infected friends with HBV (Yes) | 51(19.6) | 87(17.2) | 0.402 | | Attended a health education session on HBV (Yes) | 34(13.1) | 56(11.1) | 0.408 | | Members in the household | | | | | Parents | 168(64.9) | 286(56.3) | 0.022 | | Grand-parents | 91(35.1) | 222(43.7) | | | Having information about HBV (Yes) | 249(95.8) | 461(90.8) | 0.013 | | Baseline characteristics of children | | | | | Gender | | | | | Male | 127(48.9) | 270(53.2) | 0.259 | | Female | 133(51.1) | 238(46.8) | | | Age (Mean ± SD) | 17.0 ± 4.3 | 16.6 ± 4.1 | 0.352 |
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Chi-square and t-test used to compare with and without getting full and timely HepB vaccination groups, excluding missing data. |
