Table 2 Information received and awareness of methods, overall and by marital status, Rupandehi district, 2012
From: Marital status and abortion among young women in Rupandehi, Nepal
Total | Never married | Ever married | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(N = 600) | (N = 325) | (N = 275) | |||||
No. | (%) | No. | (%) | No. | (%) | p* | |
Contraception information received in past year | |||||||
Methods | 535 | (89.2) | 290 | (89.2) | 245 | (89.1) | 0.44 |
Sources | 512 | (85.3) | 278 | (85.5) | 234 | (85.1) | 0.45 |
Costs | 131 | (27.5) | 66 | (20.3) | 65 | (23.6) | 0.50 |
Directions on use | 165 | (11.0) | 92 | (28.3) | 73 | (26.6) | 0.38 |
Possible side effects | 66 | (11.0) | 40 | (12.3) | 26 | (9.5) | 0.20 |
Abortion information received in past year | |||||||
Methods | 311 | (51.8) | 165 | (50.8) | 146 | (53.1) | 0.61 |
Sources for safe abortion | 458 | (76.3) | 249 | (76.6) | 209 | (76.0) | 0.23 |
Costs | 184 | (30.7) | 75 | (23.1) | 109 | (39.6) | <0.01 |
Possible complications | 255 | (42.5) | 143 | (44.0) | 112 | (40.7) | 0.02 |
Stories of other women’s induced abortions | 136 | (22.7) | 80 | (24.6) | 56 | (20.4) | 0.13 |
Abortion-related mortality | 102 | (17.0) | 60 | (18.5) | 42 | (15.3) | 0.08 |
Legality of abortion | 75 | (12.5) | 49 | (15.1) | 26 | (9.5) | 0.02 |
Aware of abortion methods | |||||||
No methods | 74 | (12.3) | 35 | (10.8) | 39 | (14.2) | |
Yes, any method | 526 | (87.7) | 290 | (89.2) | 236 | (85.8) | 0.02 |
Medication abortion | 494 | (82.3) | 270 | (83.1) | 224 | (81.5) | |
Manual vacuum aspiration | 42 | (7.0) | 25 | (7.7) | 17 | (6.2) | |
Dilation & curettage | 412 | (68.7) | 227 | (69.9) | 185 | (67.3) | |