The UPTAKE study: implications for the future of COVID-19 vaccination trial recruitment in UK and beyond

Table 5 Examining the perception of vaccine and its effect on participation in vaccine trials on ethnicity

Questions	Overall		BAME		Non-BAME		BAME vis-à-vis non-BAME	Latent variable	Odds ratio	Std. error (*p-value*)
Questions	Mean score	Std. Dev.	Mean score	Std. Dev.	Mean score	Std. Dev.	(test statistic) p-value	Latent variable	Odds ratio	Std. error (*p-value*)
Vaccines are safe	3.97	0.938	4.12	0.846	3.96	0.904	(1.784) 0.074*	Perception of generic vaccine on overall health	1.67	0.051 *** (0.000)
Vaccines keep you healthy	4.07	0.951	4.19	0.931	4.04	0.916	(1.379) 0.168
Vaccines are imp for overall health	4.14	0.963	4.27	0.888	4.14	0.965	(1.43) 0.146
Approved COVID-19 vaccines are safe	4.04	1.019	4.30	0.847	4.03	1.023	(2.803) 0.005***	Perception of COVID-19 vaccine on overall health	1.62	0.044*** (0.000)
Vaccine is a necessity for COVID-19	4.08	1.069	4.24	0.920	4.07	1.035	(1.673) 0.094*
Vaccine is best to prevent COVID-19	4.17	1.058	4.32	0.840	4.16	1.072	(1.983) 0.050**
Only vaccine can control COVID-19	4.11	1.098	4.27	0.926	4.10	1.062	(1.890) 0.061*
COVID-19 vaccine will not harm me	3.94	1.022	4.16	0.854	3.93	1.026	(2.866) 0.005***
Importance of people involved in vaccine trial	4.31	0.961	4.47	0.785	4.31	0.922	(2.063) 0.041**	Perception of COVID-19 vaccine trials	1.38	0.044*** (0.000)
People from all backgrounds are important to participate in vaccine trials	4.48	0.982	4.59	0.735	4.58	0.868	(1.530) 0.129	Perception of COVID-19 vaccine trials	1.38	0.044*** (0.000)

Note: ***Significance is 1% level, **significance at 5% level and *significance at 10% level

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