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Table 5 Examining the perception of vaccine and its effect on participation in vaccine trials on ethnicity

From: The UPTAKE study: implications for the future of COVID-19 vaccination trial recruitment in UK and beyond

Questions Overall BAME Non-BAME BAME vis-à-vis non-BAME Latent variable Odds ratio Std. error (p-value)
Mean score Std. Dev. Mean score Std. Dev. Mean score Std. Dev. (test statistic) p-value
Vaccines are safe 3.97 0.938 4.12 0.846 3.96 0.904 (1.784) 0.074* Perception of generic vaccine on overall health 1.67 0.051 *** (0.000)
Vaccines keep you healthy 4.07 0.951 4.19 0.931 4.04 0.916 (1.379) 0.168
Vaccines are imp for overall health 4.14 0.963 4.27 0.888 4.14 0.965 (1.43) 0.146
Approved COVID-19 vaccines are safe 4.04 1.019 4.30 0.847 4.03 1.023 (2.803) 0.005*** Perception of COVID-19 vaccine on overall health 1.62 0.044*** (0.000)
Vaccine is a necessity for COVID-19 4.08 1.069 4.24 0.920 4.07 1.035 (1.673) 0.094*
Vaccine is best to prevent COVID-19 4.17 1.058 4.32 0.840 4.16 1.072 (1.983) 0.050**
Only vaccine can control COVID-19 4.11 1.098 4.27 0.926 4.10 1.062 (1.890) 0.061*
COVID-19 vaccine will not harm me 3.94 1.022 4.16 0.854 3.93 1.026 (2.866) 0.005***
Importance of people involved in vaccine trial 4.31 0.961 4.47 0.785 4.31 0.922 (2.063) 0.041** Perception of COVID-19 vaccine trials 1.38 0.044*** (0.000)
People from all backgrounds are important to participate in vaccine trials 4.48 0.982 4.59 0.735 4.58 0.868 (1.530) 0.129
  1. Note: ***Significance is 1% level, **significance at 5% level and *significance at 10% level
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