Table 2.

Frequency of Contraceptive Counseling and Assessment of Potential Factors Affecting Counseling

	All respondents n (%)	Medicine residents n (%)	Outpatient GIM faculty n (%)	p-value
Frequency of contraceptive counseling
Routinely (≥80%)	37 (25.3%)	15 (18.8%)	22 (33.3%)	0.1430
Often (50%–79%)	48 (32.9%)	27 (33.8%)	21 (31.8%)
Sometimes (21%–49%)	43 (29.5%)	28 (35.0%)	15 (22.7%)
Rarely (≤20%)	14 (9.6%)	9 (11.3%)	5 (7.6%)
Potential barriers
Perceived inadequate time	110 (75.3%)	68 (85.0%)	42 (63.6%)	0.0029
Perceived inadequate knowledge	108 (74.0%)	66 (82.5%)	42 (63.6%)	0.0097
<20% of practice are women 15–45 years of age	102 (69.9%)	57 (71.3%)	45 (68.2%)	0.6876
<10% of practice are women 15–45 years of age	42 (28.8%)	20 (25.0%)	22 (33.3%)	0.2683
Obtain sexual history <50%	56 (38.4%)	29 (36.3%)	27 (40.9%)	0.5645
Presence of contraception misconception	46 (31.5%)	25 (31.3%)	21 (31.8%)	0.9414
Low self-efficacy	31 (21.2%)	21 (26.3%)	10 (15.2%)	0.1027
Presence of religious or ethnic culture of origin that opposes at least one form of contraception	15 (10.3%)	12 (15.0%)	3 (4.6%)	0.0641
Plans as nonoutpatient (hospitalist, subspecialty, other) (residents only)	N/A	56 (70.0%)	N/A	N/A
Plan to stop working in outpatient in the next 5 years (faculty only)	N/A	N/A	2 (3.0%)	N/A
Low perceived importance	5 (3.4%)	3 (3.8%)	2 (3.0%)	1.000a
Potential facilitators
Prior women's health elective (faculty and residents)	34 (23.3%)	10 (12.5%)	24 (36.4%)	0.0010
Contraceptive-related CME in the past 5 years (faculty)	N/A	N/A	21 (31.8%)	N/A
Prior contraceptive counseling lecture (residents only)	N/A	63 (78.8%)	N/A	N/A

^aFisher's exact test used to calculate this p-value, owing to small cell sizes; all other p-values calculated with chi-square test for association.

CME, continuing medical education; GIM, general internal medicine.