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Table 4 Women’s demographic, reproductive, and treatment experience by overall acceptability

From: Evaluating women’s acceptability of treatment of incomplete second trimester abortion using misoprostol provided by midwives compared with physicians: a mixed methods study

 

Acceptability

Total

N = 1140

Bivariate analysis

Multivariable analysis

Acceptable

N = 1071

Unacceptable

N = 69

Unadjusted percentage differencesc (95% CI)

P value

Adjusted percentage differencesc (95% CI)

P value

Religion

 Anglican

338 (31.6)

18 (26.1)

356 (31.2)

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 Catholic

456 (42.6)

22 (31.9)

478 (41.9)

0.5% (−1.9 to 2.8%)

0.71

−0.6% (−3.4 to 2.2%)

0.674

 Islam

204 (19.0)

16 (23.2)

220 (19.3)

−2.2% (−7.8 to 3.3%)

0.435

− 2.0% (−7.5 to 3.5%)

0.478

 Other (SDAa, Born again)

73 (6.8)

13 (18.8)

86 (7.5)

−10.1% (− 18.3% to − 1.9%)

0.016

−9.0% (− 15.4% to − 2.6%)

0.006

Complete abortion

 Yes

1017 (95.0)

47 (68.1)

1064 (93.3)

24.5% (9.8 to 39.2%)

0.001

21.8% (9.5 to 34.2%)

0.001

 No

54 (5.0)

22 (31.9)

76 (6.7)

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Experienced side effectsb

 Yes

229 (21.4)

38 (55.1)

267 (23.5)

−10.7% (−25.8 to 4.4%)

0.166

-d

-d

 No

839 (78.6)

31 (44.9)

870 (76.5)

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-d

-d

Bleeding during treatment

 Less than normal menses

618 (57.7)

22 (31.9)

640 (56.1)

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 Same as normal menses

382 (35.7)

37 (53.6)

419 (36.8)

−5.4% (−8.7% to −2.0%)

0.002

−4.7% (−8.1% to −1.4%)

0.005

 Heavier than normal menses

71 (6.6)

10 (14.5)

81 (7.1)

−8.9% (−18.7 to 0.9%)

0.074

−6.4% (− 15.8 to 3.0%)

0.180

Unscheduled visits

 Yes

22 (2.0)

7 (10.1)

29 (2.5)

−18.6% (−37.0% to −0.1%)

0.049

− 13.3% (−28.8 to 2.2%)

0.092

 No

1049 (98.0)

62 (89.9)

1111 (97.5)

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Received enough counselling

 Yes

1066 (99.5)

67 (97.1)

1133 (99.4)

22.7% (6.0 to 39.3%)

0.008

-d

-d

 No

5 (0.5)

2 (2.9)

7 (0.6)

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-d

-d

Felt calm and safe

 Yes

1065 (99.4)

61 (88.4)

1126 (98.8)

51.7% (7.2 to 96.2%)

0.023

41.6% (3.3 to 80.0%)

0.033

 No

6 (0.6)

8 (11.6)

14 (1.2)

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  1. Data are n (column %) unless otherwise stated
  2. aSDA Seventh-day Adventist
  3. bHas three missing values
  4. cThese are percentage difference estimates for generalized linear models with gaussian family and identity link
  5. dNot included in the final adjusted regression model