Table 3 Factors identified by respondents from school authorities as barriers to a vaccination campaign in schools in two townships in Karachi, Pakistan
| Â | Gulshan (N = 543) | Jamshed (N = 553) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | First choice | Second choice | Third choice | First choice | Second choice | Third choice | ||||||
| Â | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | N | % | n | % |
No response | 13 | 2 | 57 | 10 | 182 | 34 | 6 | 1 | 57 | 10 | 167 | 30 |
Price of vaccine | 321 | 59 | 87 | 16 | 29 | 5 | 383 | 69 | 61 | 11 | 27 | 5 |
Risk of disease | 38 | 7 | 66 | 12 | 54 | 10 | 30 | 5 | 77 | 14 | 72 | 13 |
Side effects of the vaccine | 44 | 8 | 132 | 24 | 126 | 23 | 40 | 7 | 133 | 24 | 124 | 22 |
Unawareness of the vaccine | 114 | 21 | 182 | 34 | 107 | 20 | 86 | 16 | 205 | 37 | 134 | 24 |
Vaccination logistics | 13 | 2 | 19 | 3 | 45 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 20 | 4 | 29 | 5 |