Table 6.
Effectiveness of enhanced FP education on FP use and related participant characteristics in a randomized control trial in Ugandan fishing communities
| Variable | Intervention n = 384(%) | p-value | Control n = 383(%) | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline | After 12 months | Baseline | After 12 months | |||
| FP use | ||||||
| Yes | 150 (39.1) | 206 (53.6) | < 0.001 | 138 (36.0) | 177 (46.2) | 0.004 |
| No | 234 (60.9) | 178 (46.4) | 245 (64.0) | 206 (53.8) | ||
| Choice of FP | ||||||
| Modern | 144 (96.0) | 195 (94.7) | 0.62 | 133 (96.4 | 164 (92.7) | 0.22 |
| Natural | 6 (4.0) | 11 (5.3) | 5 (3.6) | 13 (7.3) | ||
| Opinion about FP effectiveness | ||||||
| Effective | 150 (100) | 206 (100) | na | 136 (99.3) | 177 (100) | 0.44 |
| Not effective | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.7) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Source of FP services | ||||||
| Government hospital/clinic | 55 (15.0) | 2 (0.5) | < 0.001 | 72 (19.6) | 8 (2.1) | < 0.001 |
| Private hospital/clinic | 132 (35.9) | 32 (8.3) | 132 (35.9) | 44 (11.5) | ||
| NGOs | 77 (20.9) | 91 (23.7) | 68 (18.5) | 144 (37.6) | ||
| Pharmacy/drug shop | 24 (6.5) | 43 (11.2) | 22 (6.0) | 37 (9.7) | ||
| Ordinary shop/weekly markets | 7 (1.9) | 18 (4.7) | 13 (3.5) | 27 (7.1) | ||
| Traditional birth attendants | 14 (3.8) | 39 (10.2) | 13 (3.5) | 12 (3.1) | ||
| Family planning clinics | 30 (8.1) | 110 (28.6) | 28 (7.6) | 66 (17.2) | ||
| Drug/medicine vendors | 22 (6.0) | 35 (9.1) | 15 (4.1) | 33 (8.6) | ||
| Other | 7 (1.9) | 14 (3.7) | 5 (1.4) | 12 (3.1) | ||
| Decision to use FP | ||||||
| Mainly mine (participant) | 57 (38.0) | 77 (37.4) | 0.92 | 60 (43.8) | 83 (46.9) | 0.37 |
| Mainly spouse/partner | 7 (4.7) | 8 (3.9) | 13 (9.5) | 8 (4.5) | ||
| Joint decision | 86 (57.3) | 121 (58.7) | 63 (46.0) | 85 (48.0) | ||
| Other | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.7) | 1 (0.6) | ||
| Discussion of FP with spouse | ||||||
| Never | 31 (20.7) | 21 (10.2) | 0.04 | 26 (19.0) | 26 (14.7) | 0.76 |
| Sometimes | 54 (36.0) | 71 (34.5) | 55 (40.1) | 74 (41.8) | ||
| Often | 35 (23.3) | 56 (27.2) | 24 (17.5) | 35 (19.8) | ||
| Always | 30 (20.0) | 58 (28.1) | 32 (23.4) | 42 (23.7) | ||
| Condom use in past 12 months | ||||||
| Sometimes/Inconsistent | 189 (52.4) | 169 (46.4) | 0.11 | 185 (53.8) | 156 (44.1) | 0.01 |
| Always | 172 (47.6) | 195 (53.6) | 159 (46.2) | 198 (55.9) | ||