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Table 2 Description of relais visits among young married women visited by relais in past three months in Dosso region, Niger 2016

From: Can community health workers increase modern contraceptive use among young married women? A cross-sectional study in rural Niger

 

Overall

 

N

(%)

 

89

(100)

Number of relais visits in past three months

 1

34

(38.2)

 2

37

(41.6)

 3

18

(20.2)

Topics discussed during relais visit

 Family Planning

80

(89.9)

 Pregnancy Health

52

(58.4)

 Nutrition

51

(57.3)

 Gender

11

(12.4)

Relais provided family planning

 Yes

68

(76.4)

 No

21

(23.6)

Type of family planning provided

 Pill

46

(68.7)

 Condom

2

(3.0)

 Female Condom

3

(4.5)

 Other

23

(33.8)

Relais accompanied participant to health center

 Yes

46

(51.7)

 No

43

(48.3)

Type of FP provided at health center

 Pill

24

(53.3)

 Injectables

21

(45.7)

 Implants

1

(2.2)

 Other

3

(6.5)

Found relais visit helpful

 Yes

84

(94.4)

 No

5

(5.6)

What relais information was helpful

 Helped me make choices about my life

67

(79.8)

 Helped teach me how to healthily space my pregnancies

54

(64.3)

 Helped me to speak to my husband about family planning

47

(56.0)

 Helped to better understand how to keep me and my family healthy

17

(20.5)

Someone in household was disapproving of relais visit

 Yes

7

(7.9)

 No

65

(73.0)

 Don’t know

17

(19.1)