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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Oct;118(4):895–904. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31822be512

Table 4.

Participant profile, number of pregnancies and pregnancy rates by contraceptive method at baseline

Variable DMPA
(N=582)
NET-EN
(N=148)
COC
(N=138)
Other
(N=21)
Total
Age groups
18-24 398 (68.38) 105 (70.95) 74 (53.62) 2 (9.52) 579
25-29 112 (19.24) 29 (19.59) 32 (23.19) 4 (19.05) 177
30-34 44 (7.56) 10 (6.76) 22 (15.94) 9 (42.86) 85
35+ 28 (4.81) 4 (2.70) 10 (7.25) 6 (28.57) 48
Median (IQR) 22 (20-26) 22 (20-25) 24 (20-29) 33 (29-
35)
Parity N (%)
0 91 (15.64) 51 (34.46) 55 (39.86) 0 (0.0) 197
1 349 (59.97) 71 (47.97) 50 (36.23) 0 (0.0) 470
2 100 (17.18) 20 (13.51) 23 (16.67) 4 (19.05) 147
3 29 (4.98) 3 (2.03) 8 (5.80) 10 50
4+ 13 (2.23) 3 (2.03) 2 (1.45) 7 (33.33) 25
Pregnant N (%)
Negative 570 (97.94) 145 (97.97) 100 (72.46) 21
(100.0)
836
Positive 12 (2.06) 3 (2.03) 38 (27.54) 0 (0.0) 53
Pregnancy incidence rate
per 100 woman years
(95% CI)
1.34 (0.69-
2.35)
1.37 (0.28-
3.99)
19.73 (13.96-
27.08)
Pregnancy rate *
Pregnancy incidence rate
per 100 woman years
(95% CI)
0.46 (0.13-
1.18)
1.75 (0.48-
4.49)
11.47 (7.27-
17.22)
*

at time of index pregnancy accounting for method switching