Table 3.
Adherence to the program components by sociodemographic characteristics among 75 women randomized to intervention São Paulo, Brazil
| Adherence to telephone/text | Adherence to in-person navigation | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | Yes | No | |||||
| Moderately or fully adherent (n, %) | 53 | 70.7 | 22 | 29.3 | 35 | 46.7 | 40 | 53.3 |
| Participant characteristics | ||||||||
| Age (median, IQR) | 31 | 25–40* | 27 | 23–29 | 31 | 26-40θ | 27.5 | 24–34 |
| Education | ||||||||
| Finished primary or less | 16 | 64.0 | 9 | 36.0 | 11 | 44.0 | 14 | 56.0 |
| Secondary incomplete | 13 | 65.0 | 7 | 35.0 | 8 | 40.0 | 12 | 60.0 |
| Completed secondary | 24 | 80.0 | 6 | 20.0 | 16 | 53.3 | 14 | 46.7 |
| Living in poverty (earned ≤ R$800/month) | 21 | 77.8 | 6 | 22.2 | 16 | 59.3 | 11 | 40.7 |
| Employment status | ||||||||
| Employed (with or w/out work card) | 7 | 70.0 | 3 | 30.0 | 4 | 40.0 | 6 | 60.0 |
| Self-employed | 28 | 77.8 | 8 | 22.2 | 16 | 44.4 | 20 | 55.6 |
| Student/retired/not consistently working | 18 | 62.1 | 11 | 37.9 | 15 | 51.7 | 14 | 48.3 |
| Self-identified skin color | ||||||||
| White | 19 | 76.0 | 6 | 24.0 | 13 | 52.0 | 12 | 48.0 |
| Black | 3 | 42.9¥ | 4 | 57.1 | 1 | 14.3 | 6 | 85.7Ω |
| Mixed race (parda) | 27 | 73.0 | 10 | 27.0 | 19 | 51.3 | 18 | 48.7 |
| Asian/Indigenous/other | 4 | 66.7 | 2 | 33.3 | 2 | 33.3 | 4 | 66.7 |
| Living situation | ||||||||
| Stable housing | 42 | 80.8£ | 10 | 19.2 | 26 | 50.0 | 26 | 50.0 |
| Unstable housing | 11 | 47.8 | 12 | 52.2 | 9 | 39.1 | 14 | 60.9 |
Row percentages presented to facilitate assessment of differences in participant characteristics by adherence to program
Significant or marginally significant differences: *chi-sq = 4.54, p = 0.03
θchi-sq = 4.13, p = 0.04
¥Black vs white and mixed race chi-sq = 3.00, p = .08
ΩBlack vs white and mixed race, chi-sq = 3.51, p = .06
£chi-sq = 8.35; p < .01