Table 1.

Participant characteristics

	Self-injected DMPA-SC (n=561)		Provider-injected DMPA-IM (n=600)		Sig.
	% or mean	n	% or mean	n	p
Mean age (SD)	26.9 (6.4)	561	26.5 (6.2)	600	.31
Married or cohabiting	82.5	463	80.8	485	.46
Mean parity (SD)	3.1 (2.0)	561	3.1 (1.8)	600	.17
Education level
None	7.5	42	9.7	58
Primary	70.2	394	73.3	440
Secondary or more	22.3	125	17.0	102	.04
Working outside the home	75.8	425	76.5	459	.80
Collects paycheck	11.1	47	7.2	33	.05
Mean number of household assets (SD)	6.1 (2.7)	561	5.7 (2.4)	600	.00
Mean travel time RT to facility (SD)	107.3 (86.9)	555	116.0 (91.1)	600	.10
Paid to travel to facility	13.7	77	15.0	90	.59
First-time contraceptive user	14.1	79	15.5	93	.49
Current or past injectable user	79.7	447	77.8	467	.44
Current or past DMPA-SC user	36.7	206	8.2	49	.00
Injection anxiety
Low	89.1	500	87.5	525
Moderate	10.3	58	8.0	48
High	0.5	3	4.5	27	.00
Mean number of methods used (SD)	1.6 (1.2)	561	1.5 (1.1)	600	.08
Previously visited CHW for contraception	22.5	126	17.0	102	.02
Community supports contraceptive use
Almost all	25.0	140	19.0	114	.02
Most	39.2	220	45.2	271
Some	24.8	139	25.3	152
Very few/none	11.1	62	10.5	63
Friends, family support contraceptive use
Almost all	28.3	159	23.0	138	.04
Most	37.6	211	40.3	242
Some	21.6	121	24.2	145
Very few/none	12.5	70	12.5	75
Husband supports use of family planning	81.6	458	76.3	458	.03
Family planning decisions made jointly	66.3	372	59.0	354	.01
Mean joint decision-making scale (SD)	2.2 (1.8)	561	2.0 (1.7)	600	.01

Abbreviations: CHW, community health worker; RT, roundtrip; SD, standard deviation.