Table 2.

Women’s Preferences for the Timing of Contraceptive Counseling and Interest in Starting a Birth Control Method, by Select Characteristics

	Preferred Timing of Contraceptive Counseling*				Interest in Method Initiation at Abortion Visit†
	Consultation Visit	Abortion Visit	Postabortion Encounter	p Value§	Yes	No	p Value§
	%‡	%‡	%‡		%‡	%‡
All women	42.8	15.8	35.6	-	69.5	30.5	-
Insurance║  Commercial	41.8	19.8	33.0	.78	67.1	32.9	.68
Medicaid	42.4	10.6	39.4		68.7	31.3
None	45.3	14.1	35.9		73.8	26.2
Source for women’s health care  Private doctor	41.4	18.0	36.0	.79	69.2	30.8	.74
Public health department	44.4	14.8	33.3		64.7	35.3
Federally qualified health center	47.8	13.0	30.4		80.9	19.0
Family planning clinic/other	33.3	0	60.0		73.3	26.7
No regular source	47.4	21.0	26.3		68.4	31.6
Future fertility intentions║  Wants a child in ≤2 years, unsure	31.4	23.5	43.1	.05	59.2	40.8	.08
Wants a child in ≥3 years, does not want more children	46.5	12.9	33.5		72.5	27.5
Prior barriers obtaining reproductive health care  Yes	44.8	19.0	32.5	.01	75.8	24.2	<.01
No	37.3	6.8	44.1		52.6	47.4
Difficulty paying for abortion  Somewhat/very easy	33.3	15.9	41.3	.28	58.7	41.3	.03
Somewhat/very difficult	45.6	15.6	34.0		74.1	25.9

^*Results are not reported for the 13 women (5.9%) who were not interested in contraceptive counseling at any visit.

^†This question was not asked of women who reported having a miscarriage (n = 12).

^‡Row percentages.

^§Pearson χ² and Fischer’s exact p values for categorical variables with cell size of five or fewer.

^║Information missing for one participant.