Table 2.

Birth Control Connect post-participation survey responses of IUD knowledge, informational support, information seeking, and use, by study arm.

	Intervention [Online discussion groups with IUD users] (n = 128),	Control [Online discussion groups with no IUD users] (n = 226),
Outcome	%	%	p-value
Knowledge Agree or strongly agree that the IUD is safe	80.5	76.1	0.34
Agree or strongly agree that the IUD is very effective at preventing pregnancy	89.8	89.8	0.99
Correctly responded that the IUD is more effective than the	56.3	46.5	0.08
pill at preventing pregnancy Informational support Agree or strongly agree that people on the Birth Control Connect group gave them information about the IUD they didn’t have before	63.3	51.3	0.03
Agree or strongly agree that people on Birth Control Connect gave them a better idea of what it would be like to have an IUD	70.3	51.3	<0.01
Information seeking Reported looking for online information about the IUD	46.1	45.6	0.93
(outside Birth Control Connect) in past two weeks Reported consulting a healthcare provider about the	7.8	6.7	0.68
IUD in the past two weeks Reported talking to other women they know about the IUD in the past two weeks	43.8	38.5	0.33
IUD use (hormonal or non-hormonal)	1.6	1.8	0.89