Mandatory vaccination in France: perception by outpatients and self-evaluation of its impact on their vaccine confidence

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Table 1. Answers to the questions regarding vaccination in general

	Totally yes	Rather yes	Neither yes or no	Rather no	Totally no
Do you think that vaccines are effective? (N = 432)	32.4%	49.1%	11.3%	5.1%	2.1%
Do you think that vaccines are dangerous? (N = 414)	9.2%	22.5%	26.1%	30.9%	11.3%
Do you think that vaccines provide an individual protection against infection? (N = 422)	36.2%	44.1%	9.5%	6.9%	3.3%
Do you think that vaccines provide a collective protection against infection? (N = 425)	44.2%	35.1%	9.4%	7.8%	3.5%

Table 2. Answers to the questions regarding mandatory vaccination based on the parenthood and age of respondents

	All participants		having children <3 years or not				p	Age		p
			Children <3 years		No children <3 years
Answers to questions regarding mandatory vaccination (MV)	Rather or totally yes	Others	Rather or totally yes	Others	Rather or totally yes	Others		Participants answering rather or totally yes	Participants with other answers
MV is a good public health measure	60.3%	39.7%	48.4%	51.6%	63.7%	36.3%	0.011	45 [36–58]	39 [33–50]	<0.001
MV has been sufficiently explained by the Ministry of Health	26.9%	73.1%	26.3%	73.7%	27.6%	72.3%	0.9	46 [59–37]	40 [34–51]	0.006
MV is a violation of personal freedom	46.3%	53.7%	57.5%	42.5%	43.9%	56.1%	0.028	40 [33–51]	45 [35–58]	0.002
MV is the result of pharmaceutical industry lobbying	49.4%	50.6%	63.5%	36.5%	45.4%	54.6%	0.003	40 [34–52]	44 [35–57]	0.025
MV helps to clarify vaccines status	32.5%	62.5%	20.0%	80.0%	36.4%	63.6%	0.004	45 [37–60]	40 [34–52]	<0.001

Figure 1. Distribution of the 202 participants who answered the two questions: “Did the extension of mandatory vaccination change your opinion regarding vaccination?” (X axis) and “Is this change toward more confidence or less confidence in vaccines?” (Y axis). The size of the discs shows the distribution of participants when self-evaluating both the intensity of the impact of the mandatory vaccination and the polarization (more or less confidence) of this impact. (The figure does not include the 244 participants who answered “Neither yes or no,” “Not really,” or “Not at all” to the question “Did the extension of mandatory vaccination change your opinion regarding vaccination?” and who then did not answer the question “Is this change toward more confidence or less confidence in vaccines?”).

Figure 2. Vaccine confidence according to the answers to two questions: “Did the extension of mandatory vaccination change your opinion regarding vaccination?” and “Is this change toward more confidence or less confidence in vaccines?” (more or less confidence). Bars are for median and interquartile range. (Again, the figure does not include the 244 participants who answered “Neither yes or no,” “Not really,” or “Not at all” to the question “Did the extension of mandatory vaccination change your opinion regarding vaccination?” and who then did not answer the question “Is this change toward more confidence or less confidence in vaccines?”).

Availibility of data and materials

The datasets analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.