Vaccine hesitancy and religiosity in a sample of university students in Venezuela

Figures & data

Table 1. Chi-square analysis of intention to get the Covid-19 vaccine, by religious groups

	Yes	Maybe	No
Non-religious	11	1	1
Catholics	87	34	30
Protestants	28	15	23

χ²: 11.27.

p-value: 0.02.

Table 2. Descriptive statistics (mean ± s.d.)

	VCBS	MATE	DUREL
Gender
Female (n = 119)	16.60 ± 5.98	71.08 ± 17.42	20.98 ± 4.02
Male (n = 111)	18.30 ± 5.89	68.67 ± 16.10	19.93 ± 4.82
Age
18–20 (n = 68)	17.32 ± 6.36	69.99 ± 17.24	20.44 ± 4.06
21–23 (n = 106)	17.65 ± 5.87	70.16 ± 16.80	20.49 ± 4.89
24–26 (n = 56)	17.18 ± 5.79	69.46 ± 16.55	20.49 ± 4.21
Religion
Non-religious (n = 13)	16.08 ± 6.40	88.62 7.15	8.62 ± 1.56
Catholics (n = 151)	16.85 ± 6.42	75.67 ± 12. 71	21.01 ± 3.23
Protestants (n = 66)	18.98 ± 4.47	53.08 ± 13.34	21.59 ± 3.88
Total (n = 230)	17.42 ± 5.99	69.92 ± 16.80	20.47 ± 4.45

Table 3. One-way ANOVA for comparison of religious groups (Non-religious, Catholics, Protestants)

	f-ratio	p-value
VCBS	3.34	.04
MATE	88.121	.0001
DUREL	86.13	.0001

Table 4. Post hoc t-test (2-tailed) comparing Catholics and Protestants

	t-score	p-value
VCBS	−2.46	.02
MATE	−11.86	.00001
DUREL	−1.15	.25

Table 5. Spearman’s correlation coefficients

	Intention to get the vaccine	VCBS	MATE	DUREL
Intention to get the vaccine	-	rs = 0.87569 p (2-tailed) = 0	rs = −0.57218 p (2-tailed) = 0	rs = 0.04461 p (2-tailed) = 0.50083
VCBS		-	rs = −0.61051 p (2-tailed) = 0	rs = 0.05221 p (2-tailed) = 0.43072
MATE			-	rs = −0.17484 p (2-tailed) = 0.00787
DUREL				-

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, upon reasonable request.