Table 4.
Baseline attitudes toward adolescent sexuality and girls' access to sexual and reproductive health services by site, Malawi, 2017
| Chiwalo (n = 375) |
Mchiramwera (n = 375) |
Changata (n = 372) |
Nazombe (n = 370) |
Total (n = 1,492) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | CI | % | CI | % | CI | % | CI | % | CI | |
| Agree that… | ||||||||||
| It is acceptable for girls to have sex before marriage | 4.0 | 2.3, 6.9 | 1.1 | .4, 2.6 | 7.0 | 4.8, 10.2 | 3.0 | 1.8, 4.9 | 3.8 | 2.9, 4.9 |
| It is acceptable for boys to have sex before marriage | 4.8 | 2.9, 7.8 | 1.6 | .8, 3.1 | 7.3 | 5.0, 10.5 | 2.7 | 1.7, 4.3 | 4.1 | 3.2, 5.2 |
| Unmarried girls who get pregnant are naughty | 95.4 | 92.9, 97.1 | 90.7 | 88.6, 92.4 | 91.7 | 88.9, 93.8 | 93.2 | 90.3, 95.3 | 92.7 | 91.5, 93.8 |
| Agree that… | ||||||||||
| All girls have a right to access contraceptives/family planning services | 43.4 | 36.3, 50.8 | 38.9 | 33.2, 44.9 | 47.2 | 41.8, 52.6 | 48.8 | 41.7, 55.8 | 44.5 | 41.3, 47.8 |
| Unmarried adolescent girls should have access to contraception/family planning services | 39.3 | 32.8, 46.2 | 32.5 | 27.9, 37.5 | 44.6 | 38.3, 51.2 | 35.1 | 29.2, 41.6 | 37.9 | 34.9, 41.0 |
| Married adolescent girls should have access to contraception/family planning services | 96.0 | 92.7, 97.8 | 94.7 | 91.8, 96.6 | 91.4 | 84.3, 95.4 | 96.4 | 92.3, 98.4 | 94.6 | 92.6, 96.1 |
| Giving unmarried girls access to contraceptives makes them promiscuous | 84.6 | 80.1, 88.3 | 76.7 | 72.4, 80.6 | 74.7 | 70.0, 78.8 | 82.8 | 78.9, 86.0 | 79.7 | 77.6, 81.6 |
| I would like contraceptives/family planning services to be available to girls in my community | 39.2 | 33.7, 44.9 | 37.5 | 33.3, 41.9 | 41.2 | 35.1, 47.6 | 40.5 | 34.6, 46.7 | 39.6 | 36.8, 42.4 |
CI = confidence interval.