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Table 9 Perceived barrier to vaccination

From: Impact of university students’ awareness and attitudes on vaccination practices for human papillomavirus, and perception on self-sampling for cervical cancer screening

Attitude

Health-related

Non-health related

P value

In my opinion, Gardasil is expensive (~ RM900 for the entire series)

58 (24%)

55 (23%)

*0.016

The Gardasil injection will be painful

38 (16%)

41 (17%)

0.887

Getting Gardasil would be against my beliefs

6.5%

14.5%

*0.002

  1. * Statistically significant difference between health and non-health groups (Chi-square, P ≤ 0.05)