Table 1.
US Nurse Practitioner Characteristics and Contraception Practices
| Women’s Health NPs |
Primary Care NPs |
Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| (n=363) | (n=223) | N=586 | |
| Clinician Characteristics | |||
| Age, mean years (sd)** | 51 (9.8) | 49 (9.8) | 50 (9.9) |
| Gender, n (%) | |||
| Male | 3 (0.8) | 12 (5) | 15 (4) |
| Female | 360 (99) | 211 (95) | 571 (96) |
| Race/ethnicity, n (%) | |||
| White | 313 (87) | 198 (89) | 511 (88) |
| African-American | 20 (6) | 14 (6) | 34 (6) |
| Hispanic/Latino | 10 (3) | 6 (3) | 16 (3) |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 9 (3) | 2 (1) | 11 (1) |
| Multi-racial/other | 6 (2) | 3 (1) | 9 (1) |
| Practice Setting & Patient Population | |||
| Practice setting, n (%)** | |||
| Private office | 154 (42) | 124 (56) | 278 (52) |
| Community clinic | 131 (36) | 50 (23) | 181 (27) |
| Hospital-based practice | 78 (21) | 46 (21) | 124 (21) |
| Urban v. rural, n (%)** | 284 (79) | 150 (68) | 434 (71) |
| Region, n (%)*** | |||
| West | 112 (30) | 32 (14) | 144 (19) |
| Midwest | 66 (18) | 40 (18) | 106 (18) |
| Northeast | 62 (17) | 50 (22) | 112 (21) |
| South | 123 (34) | 101 (45) | 224 (42) |
| Contraceptive patients per week, mean (sd)*** | 30 (30) | 9 (13) | 22 (27) |
| Training | |||
| Trained in family planning, n (%)*** | 353 (97) | 181 (82) | 583 (86) |
| Inserted IUC in clinical practicum, n (%)*** | 237 (66) | 27 (13) | 264 (29) |
| Comfortable inserting IUD, n (%)*** | 232 (73) | 25 (12) | 257 (30) |
| Comfortable inserting single-rod implant, n (%)*** | 90 (26) | 12 (6) | 102 (12) |
| Contraceptive Counseling | |||
| Time to counsel patients on contraceptives, n (%)** | 302 (84) | 159 (74) | 461 (77) |
| Patients receptive to learning about IUD, n (%)*** | 338 (95) | 180 (86) | 518 (89) |
| Routinely discuss IUD with patients, n (%)*** | 260 (72) | 64 (30) | 324 (43) |
| Contraceptives Provided to Patients | |||
| Oral contraceptive pills, n (%)*** | 351 (97) | 182 (84) | 533 (88) |
| Vaginal ring, n(%)*** | 321 (88) | 132 (61) | 453 (69) |
| Transdermal patch, n(%)*** | 290 (80) | 120 (55) | 410 (63) |
| Injectable, n (%)*** | 337 (93) | 155 (71) | 492 (78) |
| Emergency contraceptive pills, n (%)*** | 310 (85) | 111 (51) | 421 (61) |
| IUDs, n (%)*** | 311 (86) | 67 (31) | 378 (48) |
| Implant, n (%)*** | 154 (42) | 21 (10) | 175 (20) |
*
p ≤ 0.05
*
p ≤ 0.010
*
p ≤ 0.001