Community members trusted by African American parents for vaccine advice

Figures & data

Figure 1. Group-grid worldview typology in accordance with the cultural cognition thesis.

Figure 2. Participants’ perceived worldview of eight types of community figures.

Figure 3. Levels of trust in community figures for vaccine advice.

Table 1. Value statements used to assess perceived cultural worldview of community figures.

Worldview	Value Statement
Communitarian	Sometimes government needs to make laws that keep people from hurting themselves.
	Government should limit people’s choices if they get in the way of what’s good for everyone else.
	The government should make sure everyone has food, clothing and a place to live.
	People should be able to rely on the government for help when they need it.
Individualistic	The government interferes far too much in our everyday lives.
	Too many people today expect the government to do things for them that they should be doing for themselves.
	It’s a mistake to ask the government to help every person in need.
	The government should stop telling people how to live their lives.
	Making money is the main reason to work hard.
	It’s not the government’s business to try to protect people from themselves.
	Our government tries to do too many things for too many people. We should just let people take care of themselves.
Hierarchical	It seems like the criminals and welfare cheats get all the breaks, while the average citizen picks up the tab.
	We have gone too far in pushing equal rights in this country.
	America as a whole has become too soft and feminine.
	Nowadays it seems like there is just as much discrimination against whites as there is against blacks.
	It seems like certain groups of people don’t want equal rights, they want special rights just for them.
	A lot of problems in America today come from the decline in the traditional family, where the man works and the woman stays home.
	The women’s rights movement has gone too far.
Egalitarian	Prejudice and discrimination against minorities is still a very serious problem in America.
	It’s old-fashioned and wrong to think that America’s values are better than any other country’s way of seeing the world.
	A gay or lesbian couple should have just as much right to marry as any other couple.
	We need to greatly lessen the differences between the rich and the poor, whites and blacks, and men and women.
	Parents should encourage young boys to be more sensitive and less “rough and tough.”
	Our society would be better off if wealth was spread more equally.
	We live in a sexist society that is set up to treat men better than women.

Table 2. Background of participants.

Characteristic	N = 110
Female, n (%)	100 (91)
Age in years, mean±sd	29.6 ± 7.5
Level of Education, n (%)
Some high school or less	8 (7.2)
High school degree or equivalent (GED)	52 (47.3)
Some college/associate degree	27 (24.5)
Four year college degree or more	23 (20.9)
Number of children for whom participant has guardianship, mean±sd	2 ± 1
Age of child(ren) for whom participant has guardianship, mean±sd	4.3 ± 4.1
Insurance type of child accompanying the participant, n (%)
Public	82 (74.5)
Private	27 (24.5)
Refused/delayed influenza vaccine in past, n (%)	34 (30.9)
Refused/delayed any other vaccine in the past, n (%)	3 (2.7)

Table 3. Comparisons of trust in race concordant versus discordant community figures.

Figure(s)	Race concordant median (IQR)	Race discordant median (IQR)	p value
CDC vaccine scientist	10 (9–10)	9 (8–10)	<.05
Pediatrician	10 (10–10)	8 (7–10)	<.001
Mother	9 (6–10)	8 (7–9)	.07
Vaccine-preventable disease survivor	9 (7–10)	8 (7–9)	<.05
Father	8 (6–9)	8 (7–9)	.27
School nurse	7 (6–9)	8 (7–9)	.16
Principal	5 (4–8)	5 (4–6)	<.05
Pastor	5 (3–8)	5 (4–6)	.37
2 medical authority figures combined	10 (9.5–10)	8.5 (8–9.5)	<.001
6 nonmedical authority figures combined	7.3 (5.8–8.2)	6.5 (6–7.5)	.1
All 8 community figures combined	7.75 (6.6–8.6)	7.25 (6.3–7.9)	<.01