Table 3.
Change in family planning knowledge and behavior by participant type
| % change baseline to endline | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women (%) | p-value | Husbands* (%) | p-value | Mothers-in-law (%) | p-value | |
| Identifies 1 or more benefits of family planning/birth spacing | + 20.00 | 0.031 | + 60.00 | < 0.001 | + 16.67 | 0.125 |
| Identifies correct family planning methods to temporarily delay pregnancy | + 10.00 | 0.250 | + 6.67 | 0.063 | + 20.00 | 0.063 |
| Identifies correct family planning methods to permanently prevent pregnancy | + 33.34 | 0.001 | + 50.00 | 0.002 | + 20.00 | 0.031 |
| Responds correctly (“Yes”) to ‘Is abortion legal in Nepal?’ | + 70.00 | < 0.001 | + 40.00 | < 0.001 | + 67.67 | < 0.001 |
| Reports ever use of a contraceptive method | + 13.33 | 0.180 | + 16.66 | 0.227 | NA | NA |
| Reports 1 or more pregnancies | + 36.67 | 0.500 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Italics indicates findings were considered significant when p < 0.05 and highly significant when p < 0.01
*post intervention data was missing for 2 husbands
**NA = question not asked of participant type