Table 3.
Family planning counseling by client, provider, and facility characteristics
| Family planning counseling | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Counseling on how to use method, side effects, and when to returna | How to use methoda | Side effectsb | When to returnb | Method protects from STIa | |||||||
| Variable | Category | % | p-value | % | p-value | % | p-value | % | p-value | % | p-value |
| Client’s age | 0.170 | 0.115 | 0.176 | 0.005 | 0.074 | ||||||
| 14–24 | 22.5 | 69.1 | 33.4 | 47.8 | 13.1 | ||||||
| 25–39 | 15.9 | 59.8 | 25.7 | 33.6 | 8.1 | ||||||
| 40–58 or don’t know | 17.1 | 62.1 | 31.6 | 31.9 | 4.5 | ||||||
| Client’s education | 0.046 | 0.092 | 0.245 | 0.111 | 0.288 | ||||||
| No education | 13.9 | 58.4 | 25.8 | 32.7 | 6.8 | ||||||
| Primary & post primary | 22.2 | 66.5 | 29.9 | 40.5 | 10.8 | ||||||
| Secondary or more | 21.0 | 67.0 | 33.6 | 42.4 | 11 | ||||||
| Client status | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||||||
| New client | 38.1 | 89.2 | 53.9 | 60.8 | 18.1 | ||||||
| Returning client | 8.9 | 50.8 | 18.0 | 27.0 | 4.8 | ||||||
| Contraceptive method used | 0.013 | <0.001 | 0.001 | <0.001 | 0.547 | ||||||
| Pills | 15.6 | 77.0 | 22.2 | 26.8 | 7.1 | ||||||
| Progestin-only injection | 16.0 | 54.8 | 27.6 | 37.4 | 9.0 | ||||||
| IUD or implantsc | 29.0 | 70.3 | 45.2 | 54.5 | 11.4 | ||||||
| Provider category | 0.586 | 0.186 | 0.592 | 0.707 | 0.063 | ||||||
| Nurse or nurse assistant | 16.4 | 58.1 | 26.9 | 38.4 | 13.1 | ||||||
| Midwife and other | 18.5 | 64.7 | 29.5 | 36.5 | 6.8 | ||||||
| Provider sex | 0.955 | 0.158 | 0.789 | 0.257 | 0.039 | ||||||
| Male | 18.1 | 56.3 | 27.4 | 42.7 | 16.1 | ||||||
| Female | 17.8 | 64.0 | 29.0 | 35.9 | 7.2 | ||||||
| Provider years of education | 0.972 | 0.513 | 0.401 | 0.770 | 0.267 | ||||||
| 6–12 | 18.4 | 52.9 | 37.7 | 31.8 | 2.3 | ||||||
| 13–16 | 18.2 | 64.0 | 29.8 | 36.7 | 10.3 | ||||||
| 17+ | 17.3 | 62.0 | 25.3 | 38.8 | 7.7 | ||||||
| Provider training in family planning in the past 24 months | 0.644 | 0.789 | 0.740 | 0.394 | 0.862 | ||||||
| No | 17.1 | 61.9 | 28.0 | 35.3 | 9.1 | ||||||
| Yes | 18.8 | 63.2 | 29.5 | 39.3 | 8.6 | ||||||
| Provider activities supervised | 0.646 | 0.127 | 0.277 | 0.125 | 0.105 | ||||||
| None | 20.4 | 65.4 | 34.3 | 38.2 | 7.0 | ||||||
| 1–5 | 15.5 | 55.9 | 23.9 | 43.4 | 5.3 | ||||||
| 6 | 18.2 | 65.3 | 29.1 | 33.2 | 11.7 | ||||||
| Provider has a job description | 0.814 | 0.478 | 0.803 | 0.618 | 0.550 | ||||||
| No | 17.3 | 60.7 | 28.0 | 38.4 | 7.8 | ||||||
| Yes | 18.2 | 64.0 | 29.2 | 36.2 | 9.6 | ||||||
| Provider salary type | 0.346 | 0.340 | 0.740 | 0.532 | 0.003 | ||||||
| Monthly or daily salary | 19.3 | 64.5 | 29.8 | 38.6 | 11.7 | ||||||
| No regular salary but other compensation | 17.1 | 61.5 | 27.1 | 35.1 | 4.8 | ||||||
| None | 10.7 | 53.8 | 25.7 | 32.8 | 1.4 | ||||||
| Health facility type | 0.138 | 0.583 | 0.077 | 0.120 | 0.169 | ||||||
| Hospital/health center | 13.9 | 64.4 | 22.7 | 31.5 | 5.9 | ||||||
| Health post | 18.8 | 62.2 | 30.1 | 38.5 | 9.6 | ||||||
| Locality | 0.295 | <0.001 | 0.225 | 0.524 | 0.263 | ||||||
| Urban | 19.7 | 70.1 | 31.3 | 35.8 | 7.1 | ||||||
| Rural | 15.8 | 54.4 | 25.8 | 38.6 | 10.7 | ||||||
| Region | 0.545 | <0.001 | 0.179 | 0.010 | 0.339 | ||||||
| Northern | 11.7 | 49.1 | 19.6 | 29.2 | 4 | ||||||
| Dakar | 17.2 | 77.0 | 30.5 | 28.0 | 8.6 | ||||||
| Thiès | 24.3 | 64.0 | 40.1 | 39.0 | 8.9 | ||||||
| Central | 17.5 | 44.6 | 26.8 | 49.4 | 8 | ||||||
| East | 24.0 | 43.1 | 34.6 | 26.9 | 7.3 | ||||||
| South | 18.8 | 78.6 | 25.7 | 48.0 | 16 | ||||||
| General structure equipment composite index | 0.127 | 0.373 | 0.093 | 0.005 | 0.842 | ||||||
| Low | 13.3 | 64.7 | 23.1 | 28.5 | 7.8 | ||||||
| Medium | 21.8 | 64.9 | 34.7 | 41.6 | 10 | ||||||
| High | 20.2 | 58.1 | 30.7 | 44.2 | 8.4 | ||||||
| Total | 17.9 | 62.6 | 28.7 | 37.1 | 8.9 | ||||||
aApplies to all users, only ten respondents reported using methods other than pill, injectable, IUD, or implant
bOnly applies to users of pill, injectable, IUD, and implant
cIncludes 10 respondents who used other methods, which were male condoms, LAM, and counseling on periodic abstinence
Note: Bold values indicate a p-value<0.05