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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Womens Health Issues. 2012 Jul-Aug;22(4):e365–e369. doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2012.04.008

Table 1.

Demographics

Total (n = 225) Contacted (n = 77) Not Contacted (n = 148) p-Value
Age, mean (SD) 26.3 (6.1) 27.2 (7.1) 25.8 (5.6) .11
Race, n (%) .15
   Black 90 (40.7) 25 (33.8) 65 (44.2)
   White 120 (54.3) 43 (58.1) 77 (52.4)
   Other 11 (5.0) 6 (8.1) 5 (3.4)
   Missing 4 3 1
Education, n (%) .33
   <12th grade 45 (21.3) 13 (17.6) 32 (23.4)
   ≥ 12th grade 166 (78.7) 61 (82.4) 105 (76.6)
   Missing 14 3 11
Marital status, n (%) .30
   Never married 142 (64.5) 44 (57.9) 98 (68.1)
   Married 42 (19.1) 18 (23.7) 24 (16.7)
   Divorced/separated 36 (16.4) 14 (18.4) 22 (15.3)
   Missing 5 1 4
Employed, n (%) .20
   Yes 128 (63.7) 44 (62.0) 84 (64.6)
   No 52 (25.9) 16 (22.5) 36 (27.7)
   Student 21 (10.4) 11 (15.5) 10 (7.7)
   Missing 24 6 18
Gravidity, n (%) .07
   1–2 71 (31.6) 28 (36.4) 43 (29.1)
   3–5 112 (49.8) 41 (53.2) 71 (48.0)
   ≥ 6 42 (18.7) 8 (10.4) 34 (23.0)
Parity, n (%) .01
   0 37 (16.4) 14 (18.2) 23 (15.5)
   1–2 139 (61.8) 55 (71.4) 84 (56.8)
   3 49 (21.8) 8 (10.4) 41 (27.7)
History of abortions, n (%) .30
   No 109 (48.4) 41 (53.2) 68 (45.9)
   Yes 116 (51.6) 36 (46.8) 80 (54.1)
Estimated gestational age in weeks, median (range) 9 (4–20) 8 (5–19) 9 (4–20) <.01
Sexually transmitted infection at time of insertion, n (%) .84*
   None 118 (91.5) 46 (93.9) 72 (90.0)
   CT positive 10 (7.8) 3 (6.1) 7 (8.8)
   GC positive 1 (0.8) 0 (0.0) 1 (1.3)
   Missing, n (%) 96 28 68
Type of IUD, n (%) .85
   LNG-IUS 153 (68.0) 53 (68.8) 100 (67.6)
   Copper IUD 72 (32.0) 24 (31.2) 48 (32.4)

Abbreviations: IUC, intrauterine contraception; IUD, intrauterine device; LNG-IUS, levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system.

*

Fisher’s exact test.