Table 2

Health beliefs (HBs) of patients with asthma accepting or declining influenza vaccination.^a

Health belief statements	Flu vaccination	n	P-value^b
HB 1. How would you rate your own health	Yes	67
	No	69	0.793
	Total	136

HB 2. I am rather susceptible to flu	Yes	66
	No	68	0.002
	Total	134

HB 3. Complications of flu could be dangerous for me	Yes	67
	No	68	0.001
	Total	135

HB 4. Catching flu is not a serious problem for me	Yes	66
	No	68	0.004
	Total	134

HB 5. Influenza vaccination gives a good protection against flu	Yes	67
	No	65	<0.001
	Total	132

HB 6. Influenza vaccination can make you unwell	Yes	67
	No	66	<0.001
	Total	133

HB 7. My GP recommended the vaccination	Yes	66
	No	67	<0.001
	Total	133

HB 8. My friends or family advised me to have the flu vaccination	Yes	65
	No	64	0.012
	Total	129

HB 9. My friends or family advised me against the flu vaccination	Yes	65
	No	63	0.039
	Total	128

HB 10. I wanted to have the flu vaccination but couldn't come or forgot	Yes	63
	No	64	<0.001
	Total	127

↵a The health belief questionnaire incorporated questions from influenza vaccination studies7^,8 with domains from the Health Belief Model.10
↵b Mann–Whitney U test.