Participant characteristics
| Characteristic | No. (%) of participants* | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Not willing to receive vaccine n = 62 | Willing to receive vaccine n = 178 | Total n = 240 | |
| Demographic characteristics | |||
| Age, yr, median (IQR) | 39 (23–83) | 50 (21–81) | 46 (21–83) |
| Biological sex | |||
| Female | 17 (37.0) | 29 (63.0) | 46 (19.2) |
| Male | 44 (22.8) | 149 (77.2) | 193 (80.4) |
| Prefer not to answer | 1 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.4) |
| Ethnicity | |||
| White | 21 (15.9) | 111 (84.1) | 132 (55.0) |
| Indigenous† | 27 (43.5) | 35 (56.5) | 62 (25.8) |
| Other‡ | 11 (25.6) | 32 (74.4) | 43 (17.9) |
| Prefer not to answer | 3 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (1.2) |
| Education level | |||
| Secondary or less | 43 (29.3) | 104 (70.7) | 147 (61.2) |
| Higher education | 15 (18.5) | 66 (81.5) | 81 (33.8) |
| Prefer not to answer | 4 (33.3) | 8 (66.7) | 12 (5.0) |
| Clinical characteristics | |||
| Chronic health conditions§ | |||
| None | 35 (33.3) | 70 (66.7) | 105 (43.8) |
| ≥ 1 | 22 (18.3) | 98 (81.7) | 120 (50.5) |
| Prefer not to answer | 5 (33.3) | 10 (66.7) | 15 (6.2) |
| Vaccine-related characteristics | |||
| Receipt of the influenza vaccination in 2019–2020 | |||
| No¶ | 48 (38.7) | 76 (61.3) | 124 (51.7) |
| Yes | 13 (11.5) | 100 (88.5) | 113 (47.1) |
| Prefer not to answer | 1 (33.3) | 2 (66.7) | 3 (1.2) |
| Carceral characteristics | |||
| Correctional facility | |||
| FTC | 12 (11.4) | 93 (88.6) | 105 (43.8) |
| GVIW | 17 (36.2) | 30 (63.8) | 47 (19.6) |
| MI | 33 (37.5) | 55 (62.5) | 88 (36.7) |
| Security level | |||
| Minimum | 7 (12.3) | 50 (87.7) | 57 (23.8) |
| Medium | 54 (29.8) | 127 (70.2) | 181 (75.4) |
| Maximum | 1 (50.0) | 1 (50.0) | 2 (0.8) |
Note: FTC = Federal Training Centre, GVIW = Grand Valley Institution for Women, IQR = Interquartile range, MI = Matsqui Institution.
↵* Unless indicated otherwise. Row percentages are provided for vaccine willingness subgroups.
↵† Includes 14 participants who selected multiple ethnicities including Indigenous ethnicity.
↵‡ Includes 25 participants who selected “visible minority other than Indigenous” (e.g., Black, Asian, Arab) and 18 who selected “other ethnicity.”
↵§ Chronic health conditions include asthma, cancer, chronic blood disorder, congestive heart disease, chronic kidney disease, chronic lung disease, chronic neurologic disorders, diabetes, HIV, hypertension, other immunocompromised conditions and liver disease.
↵¶ One person did not know whether or not they had received the influenza vaccine.