Table 1.

Clinician Recommendation of the Copper Intrauterine Device for Emergency Contraception (n=788)

Characteristics	Recommended IUD for Emergency Contraception
	Yes	No
TOTAL, %	14.6	85.4
DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
Age, mean years (SD)	48.4 (11)	48.6 (11)
Gender, %
Female	15.6	84.4
Male	12.5	87.5
PROFESSIONAL AND PRACTICE CHARACTERISTICS
Professional title, %
Obstetrician–gynecologist	12.8	87.2
Family medicine or other physician	14.5	85.5
Advanced practice clinician: women’s health or ob-gyn	18.5	81.5
Advanced practice clinician: other	11.6	88.4
Practice type*, %
Private	11.1	88.9
Public	18.9	81.1
Urban practice location, %	14.6	85.3
Contraceptive patient volume†, mean annual (SD)	1,685	1020
IUD SKILLS, EVIDENCE-BASED KNOWLEDGE, AND PRACTICE
Number of IUDs inserted in residency or core training, %
0	12.3	87.7
Less than 50	15.1	84.9
50 or more	18.3	81.7
Comfortable inserting copper IUDs†, %
No	5.9	94.1
Little	11.3	88.7
Somewhat	15.7	84.3
Very	18.0	82.0
View IUC as safe, %	14.9	85.1
Yes	8.9	91.1
No
View patients as receptive to learning about IUC, %
Yes	14.9	85.1
No	14.5	14.5
IUC SKILLS, EVIDENCE-BASED KNOWLEDGE, AND PRACTICE
Routinely counsel contraceptive patients on IUC, %
Yes	15.7	84.3
No	12.9	87.1
Sufficient experience to counsel on copper IUDs*, %
Yes	16.3	83.7
No	7.3	92.7
IUC available at practice‡, %
Yes	16.5	83.5
No	11.3	88.7
Evidence-based patient selection scale†, mean (SD)	.29 (.6)	−.05 (.6)
Evidence-based method attributes scale, mean (SD)	.04 (.5)	−.01 (.6)
Number of visits required for IUC insertion*, %
1	34.4	65.6
2 or more	15.4	84.6

SD, standard deviation; IUD, intrauterine device; ob-gyn, obstetrician–gynecologist; IUC, intrauterine contraception.

^*p≤0.01;

^†p≤0.001;

^‡p≤0.05