Table 2.

Characteristics of women who currently use reversible contraception in Maryland and Delaware by satisfaction, confidence, and switching intentions, 2016-2017 (n = 1,077)

	Total	Satisfaction with method			Confidence in correct use			Switching Intentions
	%/mean (SD)	Very satisfied	Less satisfied	p- value	Completely confident	Less confident	p- value	Very low	Greater	p- value
Contraceptive method type				<0.001			0.19			<0.001
IUC	21.0	25.8	13.4		22.4	16.0		27.0	7.9
Implants	3.5	4.0	2.8		4.2	1.2		3.0	4.6
Injectable (DMPA)	4.7	5.2	4.1		5.4	2.5		5.5	3.1
Pills, patches, and rings	48.4	51.6	43.5		47.2	52.6		50.3	44.4
Coitally-dependent methods	22.4	13.5	36.3		20.8	27.7		14.2	40.0
Age				0.26			<0.01			0.13
18-24	26.8	28.9	23.4		24.0	36.0		27.6	24.9
25-34	44.7	41.5	49.8		42.9	50.8		41.5	51.7
35-44	28.5	29.6	26.8		33.1	13.2		30.9	23.3
Race/ethnicity				0.45			0.21			0.83
White	59.5	59.6	59.4		62.3	50.2		59.0	60.6
Black	21.2	20.6	22.2		19.3	27.5		20.9	21.9
Hispanic	5.8	7.2	3.6		4.9	8.9		5.6	6.3
Other	13.5	12.6	14.9		13.5	13.4		14.6	11.2
Education				0.94			0.46			0.93
High school or less	9.5	9.4	9.7		8.8	11.8		9.5	9.4
Some college	38.1	37.5	39.0		37.1	41.6		37.5	39.4
At least college grad	52.4	53.1	51.3		54.1	46.6		53.0	51.2
Household Income				0.13			0.09			0.26
< 25,000	12.1	11.1	13.6		10.7	16.5		10.8	14.9
25,000-50,000	12.4	12.4	12.4		11.0	17.4		11.3	14.9
50,000-75,000	12.0	9.5	15.9		12.7	9.9		11.5	13.1
>75,000	63.5	66.9	58.1		65.7	56.2		66.4	57.2
Marital Status				0.26			0.70			0.95
Married/cohabitating	65.1	61.9	70.1		65.6	63.3		65.0	65.3
Not married nor cohabitating	34.9	38.1	29.9		34.4	34.7		35.0	34.7
Health insurance				0.92			0.02			0.70
Public	15.2	14.9	15.6		12.6	23.7		14.5	16.7
Private	78.7	78.6	78.8		82.2	66.8		78.8	78.5
Uninsured	6.1	6.5	5.5		5.1	9.5		6.7	4.8
Health status				<0.01			0.02			0.01
Excellent or very good	71.4	77.4	62.0		74.2	62.0		75.7	62.1
Good	24.9	20.0	32.4		21.8	35.0		21.6	31.8
Fair or poor	3.7	2.6	5.6		4.0	3.0		2.6	6.1
Frequency of religious attendance				0.22			0.79			0.52
Infrequently	56.1	54.2	59.1		56.5	54.9		55.1	58.4
Frequently	43.9	45.8	40.9		43.5	45.1		44.9	41.6
Frequency of sex with male in past 3 months				0.06			0.91			0.11
None	12.5	11.0	14.9		12.1	13.8		13.4	10.7
Moderate	43.1	40.1	47.7		43.1	43.1		39.7	50.3
Frequent	44.4	49.0	37.3		44.8	43.2		46.9	39.0
Number of methods ever used	2.56 (1.18)	2.61 (1.21)	2.47 (1.13)	0.23	2.62 (1.21)	2.34 (1.07)	0.08	2.63 (1.22)	2.39 (1.05)	0.03
Ever had an unintended pregnancy				0.23			0.66			0.98
No	67.8	70.1	64.3		32.8	70.0		67.9	67.8
Yes	32.2	29.9	35.7		67.2	30.0		32.1	32.3
State				0.29			0.11			0.97
DE	13.0	13.8	11.8		13.8	10.3		13.0	13.0
MD	87.0	86.2	88.3		86.2	89.7		87.0	87.1
When want a/another child				0.79			0.01			0.88
Don’t want one	38.3	36.4	41.4		42.4	24.6		38.9	37.0
Want one within 2 years	17.4	17.6	16.9		16.6	20.0		16.4	19.5
Want one in 2 or more years	31.6	32.8	29.7		30.9	33.8		32.1	30.6
Want one but don’t know when	12.7	13.2	12.0		10.1	21.7		12.6	13.0
How important to avoid pregnancy				0.47			1.00			0.96
Not very important to avoid	31.6	32.9	29.6		68.4	68.4		68.5	68.3
Very important to avoid	68.4	67.1	70.4		31.6	31.6		31.5	31.7

Notes. Very low switching intentions includes those responding it is very unlikely they switch methods in the next 3 months, while not very low switching intentions is everyone else. IUC is intrauterine contraception. Infrequent religious attendance were those who responded they went once or twice a year or never, while frequent religious attendance were those who responded they went at least 3 times a year. For frequency of sex, none were those who reported no sex with a male in the past three months, moderate were those who reported sex less than once a month, about once a month, or a few times a month with a male, and frequent were those who reported sex about once a week or more.