Table 5 Percentage of women with specific opinions by use status (Nairobi)
From: Women’s attitudes and beliefs towards specific contraceptive methods in Bangladesh and Kenya
Attributes | Pills | Injectables | Implants | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Current users | Past users | Never users | Current users | Past users | Never users | Current users | Past users | Never users | |
Access | |||||||||
Easy | 98.3 | 94.0 | 90.6 | 99.1 | 96.9 | 93.0 | 96.7 | 92.4 | 87.1 |
Hard | 1.7 | 6.0 | 8.8 | 0.9 | 3.0 | 6.3 | 3.3 | 7.6 | 12.5 |
Don’t know/unsure | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
Effectiveness | |||||||||
Yes | 93.6 | 70.9 | 65.9 | 97.7 | 86.0 | 83.4 | 98.2 | 89.0 | 86.6 |
No | 6.4 | 29.0 | 33.7 | 2.3 | 14.0 | 16.2 | 1.8 | 11.0 | 12.9 |
Don’t know | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
Cause health problems | |||||||||
Yes, serious | 5.1 | 14.2 | 12.6 | 10.6 | 23.0 | 21.1 | 9.7 | 35.5 | 24.5 |
Yes, not serious | 18.4 | 32.7 | 28.2 | 33.4 | 38.5 | 39.4 | 31.9 | 35.9 | 37.6 |
No | 76.5 | 52.9 | 58.4 | 55.9 | 38.5 | 38.9 | 58.5 | 28.4 | 37.2 |
Don’t know | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.7 |
Interfere with menstruation | |||||||||
Yes | 25.2 | 40.7 | 42.5 | 73.0 | 82.3 | 77.1 | 59.6 | 75.1 | 66.7 |
No | 74.8 | 59.0 | 55.9 | 27.0 | 17.7 | 21.0 | 40.4 | 24.9 | 31.9 |
Don’t know | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.4 |
Cause unpleasant side effect | |||||||||
Yes | 30.3 | 51.4 | 47.3 | 50.6 | 65.8 | 61.7 | 44.8 | 70.9 | 60.1 |
No | 69.7 | 48.6 | 51.9 | 49.4 | 34.2 | 37.9 | 55.2 | 28.9 | 39.5 |
Don’t know | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
Unsafe to use for a long time | |||||||||
Yes, should take a break | 46.2 | 69.2 | 74.0 | 49.0 | 70.0 | 69.0 | 37.9 | 61.6 | 61.6 |
No, safe for long use | 53.8 | 30.8 | 25.4 | 50.9 | 29.9 | 29.8 | 61.9 | 38.4 | 37.9 |
Don’t know | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
Cause infertility | |||||||||
Yes, perhaps | 9.8 | 13.1 | 14.7 | 26.1 | 30.0 | 26.9 | 16.0 | 22.7 | 23.4 |
No | 89.3 | 86.8 | 84.6 | 73.6 | 69.8 | 72.1 | 83.4 | 77.0 | 75.7 |
Don’t know | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.9 |
FP use among friends, relatives | |||||||||
Most | 34.2 | 26.1 | 15.3 | 72.6 | 63.0 | 52.1 | 56.3 | 46.9 | 30.8 |
About half | 10.7 | 7.5 | 6.5 | 9.2 | 10.0 | 10.7 | 14.9 | 14.7 | 13.1 |
Few | 45.3 | 50.6 | 54.0 | 15.2 | 22.3 | 26.9 | 25.9 | 33.0 | 44.7 |
None | 9.8 | 15.2 | 23.5 | 2.5 | 4.2 | 9.0 | 2.7 | 4.6 | 10.8 |
Don’t know | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
Experiences of friends, relatives (1) | |||||||||
Satisfactory | 83.4 | 52 | 52.2 | 74.9 | 52.9 | 52.7 | 75.2 | 48.8 | 56 |
Unsatisfactory | 5.2 | 27.9 | 25.3 | 4.6 | 19.3 | 20.9 | 6.6 | 25.1 | 21.9 |
Mixed/Don’t know | 11.4 | 20.1 | 22.4 | 20.4 | 27.8 | 26.4 | 18.2 | 26.1 | 22.1 |
Husband’s approval | |||||||||
Approve | 92.3 | 71.8 | 55.3 | 91.5 | 77.5 | 58.4 | 90.0 | 68.5 | 53.1 |
Disapprove | 7.69 | 28.19 | 43.82 | 8.4 | 22.4 | 39.8 | 9.8 | 31.5 | 45.7 |
Don’t know | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.2 |
Satisfied with use | |||||||||
Satisfied | 90.2 | 41.3 | – | 87.7 | 44.9 | – | 86.5 | 32.3 | – |
Unsatisfied | 8.5 | 55.8 | – | 10.5 | 53.2 | – | 10.7 | 64.8 | – |
Mixed/Neither | 1.3 | 2.3 | – | 1.3 | 1.3 | – | 2.0 | 2.0 | – |
Missing | 0.0 | 0.6 | – | 0.6 | 0.6 | – | 0.7 | 1.0 | – |
Mean net positive score (2) | 53.4 | 19.8 | 15.8 | 38.0 | 14.1 | 13.0 | 44.5 | 11.8 | 13.2 |
Mean % of don’t know (3) | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.7 |
TOTAL(N) | 234 | 869 | 1684 | 909 | 1218 | 681 | 549 | 409 | 1831 |