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Table 2 Significant individual and couple-level demographic factors associated with LARC uptake after the intervention

From: Uptake of long acting reversible contraception following integrated couples HIV and fertility goal-based family planning counselling in Catholic and non-Catholic, urban and rural government health centers in Kigali, Rwanda

 

All Couples (n = 1290)

LARC uptake at baseline or within median 30 days (n = 960)

Did not uptake LARC (n = 330)

p-value*

mean

SD

mean

SD

mean

SD

Man’s Age

36.3

8.2

35.7

8.2

37.9

8.2

< 0.0001

Woman’s Age

30.6

5.4

30.4

5.5

31.1

5.1

0.0240

Man’s Years in Kigali

16.9

11.8

16.1

11.6

19.1

11.9

< 0.0001

Woman’s Years in Kigali

13.8

10.1

13.3

10.1

15.3

10.2

0.0017

Cohabitation (years)

7.1

5.0

6.7

4.9

8.2

5.1

< 0.0001

Number of biological children

2.2

1.4

2.2

1.3

2.4

1.5

0.0190

Number of children in household

2.8

1.6

2.7

1.5

3.0

1.6

0.0004

 

n

Column %

n

Row %

n

Row %

 

Man Reads Kinyarwanda

      

0.0144

 Easily/with difficulty

1005

78%

732

73%

273

27%

 

 Not at all

285

22%

228

80%

57

20%

 

Man Reads French

      

0.0066

 Easily/with difficulty

198

15%

132

67%

66

33%

 

 Not at all

1092

85%

828

76%

264

24%

 

Man’s Level of Education

      

0.0004

 Primary/Secondary/Tertiary

813

63%

578

71%

235

29%

 

 No education

477

37%

382

80%

95

20%

 

Woman’s Level of Education

      

0.0225

 Primary/Secondary/Tertiary

752

58%

542

72%

210

28%

 

 No education

538

42%

418

78%

120

22%

 

Man’s Religion

      

0.0005

 Catholic/Other

635

49%

500

79%

135

21%

 

 Pentecostal/Seven Day Adventist/Jehovah’s  Witnesses/Anglican/Baptist/Muslim/No religion

655

51%

460

70%

195

30%

 

Woman’s Religion

      

0.0019

 Catholic/Other

535

41%

432

81%

103

19%

 

 Pentecostal/Seven Day Adventist/Jehovah’s Witnesses/Anglican/Baptist/Muslim/No religion

755

59%

528

70%

227

30%

 

Couple Religion

      

< 0.0001

 Both Catholic/Other

425

33%

340

80%

85

20%

 

 Woman Catholic/Other, Man Pentecostal/Seven Day Adventist/Jehovah’s Witnesses/Anglican/Baptist/Muslim/No religion

110

9%

92

84%

18

16%

 

 Man Catholic/Other, Woman Pentecostal/Seven Day Adventist/Jehovah’s Witnesses/Anglican/Baptist/Muslim/No religion

210

16%

160

76%

50

24%

 

 Both Pentecostal/Seven Day Adventist/Jehovah’s Witnesses/Anglican/Baptist/Muslim/No religion

545

42%

368

68%

177

32%

 

Man frequency of attending religious services

      

0.0001

 More than once a week

272

21%

178

65%

94

35%

 

 Once a week or less often

1018

79%

782

77%

236

23%

 

Woman frequency of attending religious services

      

< 0.0001

 More than once a week

392

30%

262

67%

130

33%

 

 Once a week or less often

898

70%

698

78%

200

22%

 

Man’s frequency of attending religious services by religion

 Catholic/Other

      

0.0578

  More than once a week

66

10%

46

70%

20

30%

 

  Once a week or less often

569

90%

454

80%

115

20%

 

 Pentecostal/Seven Day Adventist/Jehovah’s Witnesses/Anglican/Baptist/Muslim/No religion

      

0.0197

  More than once a week

206

31%

132

64%

74

36%

 

  Once a week or less often

449

69%

328

73%

121

27%

 

Woman’s frequency of attending religious services by religion

 Catholic/Other

      

0.3745

  More than once a week

98

18%

76

78%

22

22%

 

  Once a week or less often

437

82%

356

81%

81

19%

 

 Pentecostal/Seven Day Adventist/Jehovah’s Witnesses/Anglican/Baptist/Muslim/No religion

      

0.0014

  More than once a week

294

39%

186

63%

108

37%

 

  Once a week or less often

461

61%

342

74%

119

26%

 
  1. *Two-tailed t-test for continuous variables and chi-square test for categorical variables
  2. The following demographic covariates were analyzed but were not associated with LARC uptake in chi-square analysis and are not presented above: man has income; woman has income, woman’s literacy in English, French, and Kinyarwanda; man’s literacy in English