Table 3.

Self-Reported Reasons for Dissatisfaction with Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Among 31 Women Receiving Medication for Opioid Use Disorder in Vermont U.S. in 2017 and 2018

	Reason for dissatisfaction			Main reason for dissatisfaction
	IUD n=25^a n (%)	Implant n=8^b n (%)	p-value	IUD n=25^a n (%)	Implant n=8^b n (%)	p-value
Individual level
You did not like having a foreign object in your body	5 (20%)	1 (13%)	1.00	1 (4%)	1 (13%)	.88
You did not like that you were not in charge of stopping and starting the method	3 (12%)	0 (0%)	.86	2 (8%)	0 (0%)	1.00
You were experiencing side effects (i.e. weight gain, mood changes)	12 (48%)	2 (25%)	.72	4 (16%)	1 (13%)	1.00
You were worried about serious health problems (i.e. blood clots, cancer)	4 (16%)	0 (0%)	.67	1 (4%)	1 (13%)	1.00
You were worried about infertility	3 (12%)	0 (0%)	.86	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	1.00
You were experiencing irregular bleeding or spotting	12 (48%)	5 (63%)	.86	3 (12%)	5 (63%)	.01
The method interfered with your sexual life or sexual enjoyment	7 (28%)	0 (0%)	.31	2 (8%)	0 (0%)	1.00
You were having a bad experience with the method	18 (72%)	2 (25%)	.06	10 (40%)	0 (0%)	.13
Other reason	4 (16%)^c	0 (0%)	.67	2 (8%)^d	0 (0%)	1.00

Note.

n=23 dissatisfied with only IUD and n=2 dissatisfied with both IUD and implant.

n=6 dissatisfied with only implant and n=2 dissatisfied with both IUD and implant.

Ten participants selected “other” reasons for IUD dissatisfaction when they could select all that apply and six of the ten were recategorized into existing reasons.

Four participants listed “other” reason as their main reason for IUD dissatisfaction and two of the four were recategorized into existing reasons. Columns IUD and Implant under “Reason for dissatisfaction” do not sum to 25 (100%) or 8 (100%), respectively, because participants could select more than one reason. Barriers are the same as those in Hall et al. (2016) except that we changed the tense from present tense to past tense and excluded reasons that were unrelated to method satisfaction.