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. 2021 Aug 17;30(8):1078–1085. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2020.8784

Table 3.

Association Between Participant Reports of Most Effective Contraceptive Method Currently Being Used and Lifetime Experience of Reproductive Coercion and the Covariates (Unweighted n = 240; Weighted n = 6529)

  Weighted % Effectiveness of currently used contraceptive methods
Chi-square
None & low (weighted n = 1925) Moderate (weighted n = 2421) High (weighted n = 2183)
Reproductive coercion         <0.001
 None 70.1 86.1% 68.1% 58.2%  
 Verbal only 13.9 3.3% 30.0% 5.3%  
 Behavioral 16.1 10.6% 1.9% 36.5%  
Race/Hispanic ethnicity         0.291
 White, non-Hispanic 27.8 26.9% 29.0% 27.4%  
 Black, non-Hispanic 50.1 45.8% 51.4% 52.6%  
 Hispanic 19.1 26.5% 14.2% 18.1%  
 Other, non-Hispanic 2.9 0.9% 5.4% 1.9%  
Age         0.032
 16–19 13.2 18.9% 14.4% 6.7%  
 20–29 50.5 46.3% 65.3% 37.8%  
 30–45 36.3 34.8% 20.2% 55.5%  
Marital/relationship status         0.098
 Never married or Divorced/widowed /separated 56.9 46.2% 67.6% 54.5%  
 Currently married 20.2 24.7% 11.5% 25.8%  
 Currently cohabitating 23.0 29.1% 21.0% 19.7%  
Insurance type         0.151
 Public 50.3 41.5% 48.5% 60.2%  
 Private 25.5 31.4% 26.2% 19.5%  
 None 24.2 27.0% 25.4% 20.3%  
Education level         0.093
 High school or less 50.9 46.4% 43.4% 63.0%  
 Some college/vocational 33.3 32.8% 39.0% 27.4%  
 Bachelor's degree or more 15.9 20.7% 17.6% 9.6%  
Nativity         0.199
 U.S.-born 83.0 76.8% 88.5% 82.4%  
 Foreign-born 17.0 23.2% 11.5% 17.6%  
Future pregnancy desire         0.017
 In the next 2 years 7.6 13.5% 1.8% 8.7%  
 Sometime after 2 years 29.7 42.6% 28.2% 19.8%  
 Unsure & yes, but not sure when 25.5 28.5% 26.6% 21.7%  
 No (more) children 37.3 15.4% 43.3% 49.8%  
Unintended pregnancy—ever         0.141
 No 47.6 50.6% 38.4% 55.0%  
 Yes 52.4 49.4% 61.6% 45.0%