Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of participants who self-injected DMPA-SC (n=649) or received DMPA-IM injected by a provider (n=649) in Senegal
| Self-injected DMPA-SC (n=649a) |
Provider-injected DMPA-IM (n=649) |
p value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % or mean | n | % or mean | n | ||
| Mean age (SD) | 28.8 (6.2) | 649 | 29.4 (6.3) | 649 | .11 |
| Married or cohabiting | 97.7 | 634 | 98.2 | 637 | .56 |
| Mean parity (SD) | 2.8 (1.8) | 649 | 3.2 (1.9) | 649 | .00 |
| Education level | 331 | .00 | |||
| None | 37.1 | 241 | 51.0 | 177 | |
| Primary | 31.6 | 205 | 27.3 | 127 | |
| Secondary | 25.3 | 164 | 19.6 | 14 | |
| University | 6.0 | 39 | 2.2 | ||
| Working outside the home | 41.5 | 269 | 40.7 | 264 | .78 |
| Collects paycheck | 10.6 | 69 | 10.5 | 68 | .93 |
| Mean number of household assets (SD) | 9.9 (3.3) | 649 | 9.5 (3.1) | 649 | .02 |
| Mean travel time RT to facility, min (SD) | 54.0 (47.5) | 649 | 57.2 (45.6) | 649 | .21 |
| Paid to travel to facility | 35.0 | 227 | 43.8 | 284 | .00 |
| First-time contraceptive user | 10.8 | 70 | 11.6 | 75 | .66 |
| Current or past injectable user | 87.1 | 565 | 85.7 | 556 | .47 |
| Current or past DMPA-SC user | 39.5 | 256 | 8.6 | 56 | .00 |
| Injection anxiety | .00 | ||||
| Low | 70.6 | 458 | 50.7 | 329 | |
| Moderate | 24.7 | 160 | 29.9 | 194 | |
| High | 4.8 | 31 | 19.4 | 126 | |
| Mean number of methods ever used (SD) | 1.4 (0.8) | 649 | 1.3 (0.7) | 649 | .06 |
| Husband supports use of family planning | 87.4 | 567 | 85.1 | 552 | .23 |
| Family planning decisions made jointly | 59.9 | 389 | 55.5 | 360 | .10 |
SD, standard deviation; RT, roundtrip.
a
Baseline data for one self-injecting participant were missing.