Table 1.
Baseline demographic characteristics of Medicaid participants by OC use, 2000–2012
| Oral Contraceptive Types | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics (N, %) | Never Use (n=458) | POC (n=135) | COC (n=3958) | POC+ COC (n=265) | P Value |
| Vital Status | <0.01 | ||||
| Alive | 421 (91.9) | 124 (91.9) | 3307 (83.6) | 239 (90.2) | |
| Not Alive | 37 (8.1) | 11 (8.2) | 496 (16.4) | 26 (9.8) | |
| Race | <0.01 | ||||
| White | 427 (93.2) | 118 (87.4) | 3773 (95.3) | 259 (97.7) | |
| Black | 31 (6.8) | 17 (12.6) | 185 (4.7) | 6 (2.3) | |
| Education | 0.31 | ||||
| < High School | 26 (5.7) | 14 (10.4) | 532 (13.4) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Some high school | 5 (1.1) | 0 (0.0) | 32 (0.8) | 0 (0.0) | |
| High school graduate | 12 (2.6) | 2 (1.5) | 121 (3.1) | 0 (0.0) | |
| > High school | 171 (37.3) | 10 (7.4) | 1215 (30.7) | 111 (41.9) | |
| Missing | 244 (53.3) | 109 (80.7) | 2058 (51.9) | 135 (58.1) | |
| Stage | <0.01 | ||||
| In situ | 17 (3.7) | 3 (3.2) | 343 (12.8) | 22 (9.7) | |
| Local | 156 (34.1) | 48 (51.1) | 1175 (44.0) | 12 (5.3) | |
| Regional/Distant | 168 (36.7) | 43 (45.7) | 1156 (43.3) | 194 (85.1) | |
| Missing | 117 (25.5) | 41 (30.4) | 1284 (32.4) | 37 (14.0) | |
| Tobacco | 0.31 | ||||
| Yes | 17 (10.9) | 28 (82.4) | 352 (28.7) | 0 (0.0) | |
| No | 139 (89.1) | 6 (17.7) | 876 (71.3) | 16 (100.0) | |
| Married | <0.01 | ||||
| Yes | 128 (30.1) | 45 (37.2) | 992 (25.1) | 213 (80.4) | |
| No | 298 (70.0) | 76 (62.8) | 2954 (74.9) | 52 (19.6) | |
| Mean (SD) | |||||
| Age of OC use | 34.4 (5.3) | 35.0 (6.7) | 36.2 (7.3) | 41.5 (8.2) | <0.01 |
| Follow-up after OC use | 121.9 (15.7) | 99.3 (43.7) | 139.4 (29.2) | 135.7 (21.9) | <0.01 |
| Duration of use | N/A | 5.0 (4.4) | 13.3 (17.5) | 22.1 (30.4) | 0.03 |