Table 3 Factors that influenced decision to go to first/only abortion provider (N = 1144)
From: Determinants of women’s preferred and actual abortion provision locations in Nigeria
Decision-making factor (multiple select) | Top decision-making factor among all respondents | Top decision-making factor among users of clinical sources (n = 483) | Top decision-making factor among users of pharmacists/chemists (n = 336) | Top decision-making factor among users of other non-clinical sources* (n = 325) | p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||
Cost | 305 (24.3) | 128 (10.4) | 29 (5.8) | 46 (12.6) | 53 (16.2) | < 0.001 |
Convenience | 479 (41.1) | 188 (16.9) | 74 (16.0) | 55 (16.8) | 59 (18.5) | 0.762 |
Location | 390 (28.9) | 122 (9.2) | 47 (7.3) | 37 (10.5) | 38 (11.2) | 0.212 |
Privacy/confidentiality | 474 (39.7) | 254 (20.7) | 107 (18.6) | 81 (23.7) | 66 (20.8) | 0.319 |
Method offered | 190 (14.3) | 57 (4.1) | 26 (4.5) | 18 (4.0) | 13 (3.2) | 0.686 |
Recommended | 237 (22.3) | 114 (12.3) | 62 (16.1) | 29 (10.0) | 23 (8.2) | 0.017 |
Partner | 84 (29.3) | 24 (18.6) | 16 (22.9) | 5 (16.9) | 3 (6.1) | 0.311 |
Family member | 25 (12.2) | 8 (7.8) | 5 (8.2) | 1 (4.7) | 2 (11.2) | 0.743 |
Friend | 117 (55.1) | 63 (60.8) | 34 (59.8) | 15 (56.8) | 14 (70.1) | 0.729 |
Health provider | 21 (7.6) | 9 (8.0) | 4 (5.5) | 5 (19.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0.053 |
Community health worker | 9 (2.6) | 6 (3.6) | 5 (5.5) | 1 (1.4) | 0 (0.0) | 0.324 |
Pharmacist | 16 (1.0) | 1 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.4) | 0 (0.0) | 0.673 |
Online resources | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | – |
Hotline (phone numbers) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | – |
Other | 7 (2.8) | 4 (2.1) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (12.5) | 0.010 |
Provider had good reputation | 236 (21.5) | 109 (10.4) | 81 (17.5) | 19 (6.1) | 9 (2.6) | < 0.001 |
Knew provider | 134 (12.6) | 51 (5.7) | 28 (6.7) | 13 (5.2) | 10 (4.3) | 0.594 |
Only option knew of nearby | 99 (9.1) | 49 (4.7) | 13 (3.7) | 19 (6.4) | 17 (4.3) | 0.348 |
Other | 8 (1.1) | 8 (1.1) | 5 (1.9) | 2 (0.4) | 1 (0.4) | 0.066 |
Do not know/no response | 0 (0.0) | 64 (4.7) | 11 (1.8) | 17 (4.2) | 36 (10.4) | – |