Skip to main content

Table 4 On a scale of one to ten, with one being the least confident and ten being the most confident, student positive response by program

From: Immunization attitudes, opinions, and knowledge of healthcare professional students at two Midwestern universities in the United States

 

All Program positive responsea

N = 222n (%)

BSN positive responsesa

n = 83

n (%)

DNP positive responsesa

n = 14

n (%)

Medicine positive responsesa

n = 74

n (%)

Pharmacy positive responsesa

n = 51

n (%)

Fisher’s exact test

p – value

Benefit of vaccines

143 (64.4)

47 (56.6)

11 (78.6)

52 (70.3)

33 (64.7)

0.372

Risks of vaccinesb

99 (44.8)

34 (41.5)

8 (57.1)

33 (44.6)

24 (48.0)

0.865

Est. dialogue w/patientsc

117 (52.9)

34 (41.0)

11 (78.6)

51 (68.9)

21 (42.0)

0.001*

Vaccine safetyd

119 (53.8)

38 (45.8)

7 (53.8)

43 (58.1)

31 (60.8)

0.224

Effectiveness of vaccines

149 (67.1)

46 (55.4)

9 (64.3)

61 (82.4)

33 (64.7)

0.004*

Vaccines and autism

165 (74.3)

48 (57.8)

13 (92.9)

64 (86.5)

40 (78.4)

< 0.0001*

Whether vaccines overwhelm the immune system

128 (57.7)

33 (39.6)

8 (57.1)

49 (66.2)

38 (74.5)

< 0.0001*

Risk of vaccine preventable diseasesc

171 (77.4)

57 (68.7)

14 (100)

61 (82.4)

39 (78.0)

0.044*

  1. aPositive responses: Responses of 8–10 were collapsed to reflect positive response *p < 0.05
  2. bBSN n = 82
  3. cPharmacy n = 53
  4. dDNP n = 13