Table 2. Reasons for acceptability or not of A/H1N1 pandemic vaccination in the French adult population (online survey, November 17 to 25, 2009, N = 2,167).
| Main reason(s) for acceptability of pandemic vaccination (n = 369) | % [CI 95%] |
| Protecting myself to avoid sickness | 74.5 [69.8; 78.9] |
| Protecting my close relatives | 68.8 [63.8; 73.5] |
| Getting vaccinated is convenient and quick | 27.4 [22.9; 32.2] |
| A health professional advised me to get vaccinated | 25.2 [20.9; 30.0] |
| Getting vaccinated is a civic duty | 24.1 [19.8; 28.8] |
| Vaccination is recommended by public authorities | 23.6 [19.3; 28.3] |
| Vaccination is free | 21.1 [17.1; 25.7] |
| Protecting myself to avoid work absenteeism | 20.1 [16.1;24.5] |
| Vaccines are safe | 9.2 [6.5; 12.6] |
| Vaccines have no side effects | 7.1 [4.7; 10.2] |
| Main reason(s) for non-acceptability of pandemic vaccination (n = 1,798) | |
| Vaccines are not safe enough | 71.2 [69.0; 73.3] |
| Vaccines have side effects | 68.4 [66.2; 70.1] |
| Flu is not a severe disease | 19.7 [17.9; 21.7] |
| Vaccines lack efficacy | 17.3 [15.6; 19.1] |
| A health professional advised me to avoid vaccination | 15.3 [13.7; 17.0] |
| I never get the flu | 15.0 [13.3; 16.7] |
| I dislike the shots | 7.0 [5.8; 8.2] |
| Getting vaccinated is inconvenient and too long | 3.6 [2.8; 4.6] |
| I have medical reasons to avoid H1N1 vaccine | 1.4 [0.9; 2.1] |
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Any items could be selected and thus proportions do not add to 100%. Items were presented in a random order.