Caregivers’ intentions to COVID-19 vaccination for their children in China: a cross-sectional survey

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Table 1. Characteristics of the study sample

Variables	Total		Caregivers’ intentions to have their children vaccinated, yes			Caregivers’ intentions to be vaccinated themselves, yes
	N	Column %	N	Row %	p-Value	N	Row %	p-Value
Total	3703	100.0	3110	84.0		3107	83.9
Age group (years)					.004			.001
20–39	1255	33.9	1019	81.2		1079	86.0
40–59	1041	28.1	894	85.9		887	85.2
≥60	1407	38.0	1197	85.1		1141	81.1
Gender					.901			.275
Male	1590	42.9	1334	83.9		1322	83.1
Female	2113	57.1	1776	84.1		1785	84.5
Relationship to child(ren)					.321			.003
Mother	1278	34.5	1064	83.3		1101	86.2
Father	835	22.6	694	83.1		708	84.8
Grandparent	1590	42.9	1352	85.0		1298	81.6
Education level					<.001			.013
Middle school or below	1771	47.8	1523	86.0		1453	82.0
High school/technical college	1374	37.1	1148	83.6		1176	85.6
Bachelor degree or above	558	15.1	439	78.7		478	85.7
Living residence					.145			.810
Urban	2129	57.5	1772	83.2		1789	84.0
Rural	1574	42.5	1338	85.0		1318	83.7
Annual household income					.344			.503
<100,000 Yuan	2496	67.4	2109	84.5		2083	83.5
100,200,000 Yuan	888	24.0	741	83.4		756	85.1
≥200,000 Yuan	319	8.6	260	81.5		268	84.0
Province					<.001			<.001
Hubei	972	26.2	894	92.0		884	90.9
Chongqing	541	14.6	493	91.1		482	89.1
Gansu	776	21.0	578	74.5		586	75.5
Guangdong	542	14.6	444	81.9		447	82.5
Jilin	353	9.5	282	79.9		278	78.8
Zhejiang	519	14.0	419	80.7		430	82.9

Table 2. Perceptions of COVID-19 infection or vaccine

Variables	Total		Caregivers’ intentions to have their children vaccinated, yes			Caregivers’ intentions to be vaccinated themselves, yes
	N	Column %	N	Row %	p-Value	N	Row %	p-Value
Total	3703	100.0	3110	84.0		3107	83.9
Perceived risk of COVID-19 infection					<.001			<.001
High	1093	29.5	945	86.5		979	89.6
Fair/low	2610	70.5	2165	83.0		2128	81.5
Perceived severity of COVID-19 infection					.005			<.001
High	3057	82.6	2591	84.8		2633	86.1
Fair/low	646	17.4	519	80.3		474	73.4
Perceived safety of COVID-19 vaccines					<.001			<.001
Safe	2422	65.4	2185	90.2		2248	92.8
Not safe/not clear	1281	34.6	925	72.2		859	67.1
Perceived effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines					<.001			<.001
Effective	2537	68.5	2287	90.1		2357	92.9
Not Effective/not clear	1166	31.5	823	70.6		750	64.3
Trust in governments’ information and suggestions of vaccination					<.001			<.001
Trust	3302	89.2	2867	86.8		2916	88.3
Fair/not trust	401	10.8	243	60.6		191	47.6
Trust in health workers’ information and suggestions of vaccination					<.001			<.001
Trust	3301	89.1	2862	86.7		2916	88.3
Fair/not trust	402	10.9	248	61.7		191	47.6

Table 3. Caregivers’ intentions to be vaccinated and to have their children vaccinated

		Caregivers’ intentions to have their children vaccinated
		Total		Yes		No/not sure
		N	Row %	N	Row %	N	Row %	p-Value
Caregivers’ intentions to be vaccinated themselves	Total	3703	100	3110	84.0	593	16.0	<.001
	Yes	3107	100	2865	92.2	242	7.8
	No/not sure	596	100	245	41.1	351	58.9

Table 4. Adjusted logistic regression of caregivers’ intentions to have their children vaccinated against COVID-19 (N = 3703)

Variables	aOR	95%CI	p-Value
Caregivers’ intentions to be vaccinated themselves
No/not sure	1.00
Yes	11.75	9.11–15.14	<.001
Age group (years)
20–39	1.00
40–59	1.50	1.12–2.00	.006
≥60	1.70	1.12–2.58	.013
Gender
Male	1.00
Female	0.94	0.70–1.29	.710
Relationship to child(ren)
Mother	1.00
Father	1.09	0.73–1.64	.658
Grandparent	0.77	0.50–1.18	.231
Education level
Middle school or below	1.00
High school/technical college	0.66	0.49–0.88	.005
Bachelor degree or above	0.45	0.30–0.66	<.001
Living residence
Urban	1.00
Rural	1.12	0.87–1.43	.392
Annual household income
<100,000 Yuan	1.00
100,200,000 Yuan	0.87	0.66–1.15	.331
≥200,000 Yuan	0.90	0.57–1.40	.628
Perceived risk of COVID-19 infection
High	1.00
Fair/low	0.96	0.75–1.22	.717
Perceived severity of COVID-19 disease
High	1.00
Fair/low	1.30	0.96–1.76	.086
Perceived safety of COVID-19 vaccines
Not safe/not clear	1.00
Safe	1.59	1.14–2.21	.006
Perceived effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines
Not Effective/not clear	1.00
Effective	1.45	1.04–2.02	.029
Trust in governments’ information and suggestions of vaccination
Fair/not trust	1.00
Trust	1.43	0.89–2.30	.138
Trust in health workers’ information and suggestions of vaccination
Fair/not trust	1.00
Trust	0.97	0.59–1.59	.904
Province
Hubei	1.00
Chongqing	0.95	0.65–1.41	.820
Gansu	0.25	0.18–0.35	<.001
Guangdong	0.51	0.35–0.73	<.001
Jilin	0.53	0.35–0.79	.002
Zhejiang	0.38	0.25–0.57	<.001

aOR: adjusted odds ratio; bold-faced: p < .05.

Table 5. The most common reasons for caregivers who do not intend to have their children vaccinated COVID-19

Reasons	N	Column %
The vaccine may not be safe	300	50.59
Waiting for someone else to be vaccinated first	110	18.55
The vaccine does not work	69	11.64
Low risk of infection	39	6.58
The vaccine is expensive	33	5.56
Inadequate supplies of vaccine or don’t know where to get vaccinated	22	2.53
Other reasons	20	2.19