Exposure to family planning messages and teenage pregnancy: results from the 2017 Philippine National Demographic and Health Survey

Pepito, Veincent Christian F.; Amit, Arianna Maever L.; Tang, Clinton S.; Co, Luis Miguel B.; Aliazas, Neil Andrew K.; De Los Reyes, Sarah J.; Baquiran, Raymundo S.; Tanchanco, Lourdes Bernadette S.

doi:10.1186/s12978-022-01510-x

Reproductive Health

Table 3 Crude and adjusted associations between exposure to family planning and contraception messages with experiencing teenage pregnancy (n = 4464)

From: Exposure to family planning messages and teenage pregnancy: results from the 2017 Philippine National Demographic and Health Survey

	Crude odds ratio and 95% Confidence interval	p-value	Adjusted odds ratio^a and 95% Confidence interval	p-value
Read information about contraception on the internet
No	1 (Baseline)		1 (Baseline)
Yes	0.66 (0.47, 0.92)	0.014	0.90 (0.59, 1.35)	0.600
Heard about family planning on radio last few months
No	1 (Baseline)		1 (Baseline)
Yes	1.24 (0.91, 1.68)	0.165	1.06 (0.71, 1.59)	0.766
Heard about family planning on TV last few months
No	1 (Baseline)		1 (Baseline)
Yes	1.02 (0.75, 1.40)	0.886	1.09 (0.72, 1.65)	0.678
Read about family planning in newspaper/magazine last few months
No	1 (Baseline)		1 (Baseline)
Yes	0.72 (0.41, 1.28)	0.263	0.78 (0.44, 1.41)	0.413
Read about family planning text messages on mobile phone
No	1 (Baseline)		1 (Baseline)
Yes	1.18 (0.55, 2.54)	0.665	1.29 (0.51, 3.22)	0.590
Wealth index
Poorest	1 (Baseline)		1 (Baseline)
Poorer	0.63 (0.46, 0.88)	0.007	0.84 (0.53, 1.35)	0.469
Middle class	0.72 (0.48, 1.09)	0.122	1.13 (0.66, 1.92)	0.660
Richer	0.30 (0.19, 0.49)	< 0.001	0.54 (0.28, 1.05)	0.068
Richest	0.19 (0.10, 0.37)	< 0.001	0.49 (0.24, 1.02)	0.056
Highest educational attainment of respondent
None	1 (Baseline)		1 (Baseline)
Primary education	3.15 (0.76, 13.04)	0.113	6.20 (1.28, 30.10)	0.023
Secondary education	0.55 (0.14, 2.21)	0.399	1.25 (0.29, 5.46)	0.766
Higher	0.32 (0.07, 1.35)	0.120	0.24 (0.05, 1.12)	0.070
Domicile
Urban	1 (Baseline)		1 (Baseline)
Rural	1.53 (1.11, 2.12)	0.011	1.20 (0.78, 1.83)	0.412
Frequency of reading newspapers or magazines
Not at all	1 (Baseline)		1 (Baseline)
Less than once a week	0.66 (0.49, 0.90)	0.008	0.90 (0.60, 1.35)	0.610
At least once a week	0.36 (0.18, 0.71)	0.001	0.61 (0.32, 1.15)	0.126
Frequency of watching television
Not at all	1 (Baseline)		1 (Baseline)
Less than once a week	0.74 (0.43, 1.30)	0.295	0.95 (0.39, 2.36)	0.920
At least once a week	0.56 (0.35, 0.88)	0.012	0.89 (0.40, 1.99)	0.785
Frequency of internet access
Not at all	1 (Baseline)		1 (Baseline)
Less than once a week	0.88 (0.57, 1.37)	0.584	0.98 (0.54, 1.79)	0.950
At least once a week	0.30 (0.21, 0.43)	< 0.001	0.41 (0.23, 0.73)	0.002
Almost every day	0.26 (0.17, 0.38)	< 0.001	0.43 (0.23, 0.83)	0.012
Wife justified asking husband to use condom if he has STI
No	1 (Baseline)		1 (Baseline)
Yes	1.71 (1.17, 2.50)	0.005	1.75 (1.10, 2.78)	0.018
Age^b	2.24 (1.97, 2.54)	< 0.001	2.91 (2.46, 3.43)	< 0.001
Religion
Roman Catholic	1 (Baseline)		1 (Baseline)
Protestant	0.75 (0.45, 1.27)	0.287	0.46 (0.22, 0.94)	0.034
Iglesia ni Cristo	0.60 (0.23, 1.57)	0.297	0.49 (0.20, 1.20)	0.119
Aglipay	2.13 (0.58, 7.78)	0.254	1.13 (0.35, 3.61)	0.839
Islam	0.76 (0.47, 1.24)	0.270	0.28 (0.14, 0.58)	< 0.001
Other Christian	0.41 (0.19, 0.88)	0.022	0.42 (0.18, 0.99)	0.048
Other	2.23 (0.90, 5.55)	0.085	2.32 (0.76, 7.06)	0.139
Frequency of listening to radio
Not at all	1 (Baseline)		1 (Baseline)
Less than once a week	0.81 (0.55, 1.19)	0.277	1.22 (0.70, 2.10)	0.485
At least once a week	1.08 (0.73, 1.60)	0.704	1.61 (0.92, 2.81)	0.097
HIV knowledge^b	1.03 (0.95, 1.11)	0.419	1.02 (0.93, 1.13)	0.621

^aAdjusted for other variables in the table
^bCommon odds ratio representing increase in odds of teenage pregnancy per unit increase in the variable

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