Table 1.
Sociodemographic, health, and fertility characteristics stratified by arm of trial and use of contraception prior to the intervention
| Woman partner not using a method at baseline | Woman partner using a method at baseline | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total (N = 782) |
No Method video (N = 384) |
Method video (N = 398) |
Total (N = 278) |
No Method video (N = 160) |
Method video (N = 118) |
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| n/mean | %/SD | n/mean | %/SD | n/mean | %/SD | n/mean | %/SD | n/mean | %/SD | n/mean | %/SD | |
| Pregnant during follow-up | 92 | 12% | 42 | 11% | 50 | 13% | 45 | 16% | 34 | 21%# | 11 | 9%# |
| Average follow-up time (days)* | 501.7 | 320.2 | 496.1 | 309.3 | 507.2 | 330.6 | 520.2 | 314.1 | 494.2 | 305.2 | 555.5 | 323.8 |
| Sociodemographic characteristics | ||||||||||||
| Age of Woman (years)* | 28.8 | 5.6 | 28.9 | 5.6 | 28.7 | 5.6 | 28.6 | 5.4 | 28.1 | 5.4 | 29.4 | 5.5 |
| Age of Man (years)* | 35.0 | 6.5 | 35.2 | 6.3 | 34.9 | 6.7 | 34.9 | 6.8 | 34.7 | 6.7 | 35.2 | 6.8 |
| Number of living children* | 2.2 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 1.5 |
| Monthly household income (per 10,000 Kwacha)* | 33.8 | 55.0 | 36.1 | 63.3 | 31.6 | 45.6 | 35.2 | 43.7 | 35.3 | 48.0 | 35.0 | 37.5 |
| Years cohabitating* | 7.7 | 5.1 | 7.7 | 4.9 | 7.8 | 5.3 | 8.5 | 5.3 | 8.1 | 5.0 | 9.1 | 5.7 |
| Woman understands English | ||||||||||||
| Easily | 201 | 26% | 110 | 29% | 91 | 23% | 68 | 25% | 39 | 25% | 29 | 25% |
| With difficulty/not at all | 579 | 74% | 274 | 71% | 305 | 77% | 209 | 75% | 120 | 75% | 89 | 75% |
| Man understands English | ||||||||||||
| Easily | 481 | 62% | 239 | 62% | 242 | 61% | 174 | 63% | 99 | 62% | 75 | 64% |
| With difficulty/not at all | 300 | 38% | 144 | 38% | 156 | 39% | 103 | 37% | 60 | 38% | 43 | 36% |
| Woman understands Nyanja | ||||||||||||
| Easily | 704 | 90% | 344 | 90% | 360 | 91% | 246 | 89% | 141 | 89% | 105 | 89% |
| With difficulty/not at all | 76 | 10% | 39 | 10% | 37 | 9% | 31 | 11% | 18 | 11% | 13 | 11% |
| Man understands Nyanja | ||||||||||||
| Easily | 674 | 86% | 331 | 86% | 343 | 86% | 249 | 90% | 143 | 90% | 106 | 90% |
| With difficulty/not at all | 107 | 14% | 52 | 14% | 55 | 14% | 28 | 10% | 16 | 10% | 12 | 10% |
| Health and fertility characteristics | ||||||||||||
| HIV serostatus at baseline | ||||||||||||
| Serodiscordant (Woman is positive) | 127 | 16% | 54 | 14% | 73 | 18% | 45 | 16% | 29 | 18% | 16 | 14% |
| Serodiscordant (Man is positive) | 108 | 14% | 54 | 14% | 54 | 14% | 59 | 21% | 38 | 24% | 21 | 18% |
| Concordant positive | 547 | 70% | 276 | 72% | 271 | 68% | 174 | 63% | 93 | 58% | 81 | 69% |
| Woman fertility intentions | ||||||||||||
| Wants more children in the next year | 31 | 4% | 15 | 4% | 16 | 4% | 7 | 3% | 5 | 3% | 2 | 2% |
| Wants more children, but not in the next year | 202 | 26% | 94 | 24% | 108 | 27% | 80 | 29% | 49 | 31% | 31 | 26% |
| Does not want more children | 534 | 68% | 268 | 70% | 266 | 67% | 185 | 67% | 102 | 64% | 83 | 70% |
| Don't know | 14 | 2% | 7 | 2% | 7 | 2% | 5 | 2% | 3 | 2% | 2 | 2% |
| Man fertility intentions | ||||||||||||
| Wants more children, but not in the next year | 296 | 38% | 139 | 36% | 157 | 39% | 99 | 36% | 63 | 40% | 36 | 31% |
| Does not want more children | 450 | 58% | 225 | 59% | 225 | 57% | 160 | 58% | 84 | 53% | 76 | 64% |
| Don't know | 36 | 5% | 20 | 5% | 16 | 4% | 18 | 6% | 12 | 8% | 6 | 5% |
*
Data shown as means and SDs
Cells may not add up to totals due to missing values
#
p < 0.0001