Table 1.

Menstrual health product-access challenges among young women during the COVID-19 pandemic.

	2020 Survey Wave (n= 611)	2021 Survey Wave (n= 591)
	% (n)
Any product-access challenge	52·0 (318)	30·3 (179)
Specific product-access challenge*
Lack of money to buy products	45·1 (275)	26·4 (156)
Could not go to store to buy	7·8 (48)	1·6 (10)
Was not comfortable asking someone to go to store	5·1 (31)	3·0 (18)
Products unavailable at store	3·0 (18)	0·7 (4)
Other	0·3 (2)	0·9 (5)
Organization that was supporting us closed	–	2·7 (16)
I do not see the people who used to give me products anymore	–	2·3 (14)

– not a response option during 2020 data collection.

^⁎not mutually exclusive.