It has come to our attention that further clarification of some results from our study “Impact of a physician recommendation and parental immunization attitudes on receipt or intention to receive adolescent vaccines” is needed. In particular, this addendum presents an expanded format and explanation of “Association of physician recommendation for any adolescent vaccine and receipt of or intent to receive recommended vaccine.” Compared with parents who did not get a physician's recommendation, parents who did receive a physician's recommendation for any of the four vaccines were significantly more likely to report that their adolescent had received the Tdap vaccine (P < 0.001), MCV4 vaccine (P < 0.001), and HPV vaccine (P = 0.03) (). Among parents who had not vaccinated their adolescent, physician recommendation was also significantly associated with intention to vaccinate with Tdap vaccine (P = 0.05), MCV4 vaccine (P = 0.005), and HPV vaccine (P = 0.05) compared with those parents who had not received a physician recommendation (). Physician recommendation for any of the four adolescent vaccines was not associated with receipt of influenza vaccine (P = 0.71) or intention to vaccinate against influenza (P = 0.95) ().
Table 5A. Association of physician recommendation for any adolescent vaccine and receipt of or intent to receive recommended vaccine
In summary, physician recommendation for any of the four adolescent vaccines was significantly associated with receipt of Tdap, MCV4, and HPV vaccines. In addition, physician recommendation was also significantly associated with intention to receive the Tdap, MCV4, and HPV vaccines. With this addendum, we seek to clarify our earlier table. We apologize for any confusion that may have occurred.