Task-shifting and family planning continuation: contraceptive trajectories of women who received their method at a community-based event in Kinshasa, DRC

Table 5 Odds of discontinuation during the 6-month study period among women in need of modern contraception

Independent variables	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
Independent variables	OR	p-value	OR	p-value	OR	p-value
Experience with method
Experienced side effects (after baseline)	1.70	0.072	5.69	< 0.001	1.60	0.128
Was able to resupply method at least once	–	–	–	–	0.01	< 0.001
Baseline counseling experience
Intended to continue using FP at baseline	0.27	0.273	0.24	0.192	0.87	0.882
Did not obtain preferred method at baseline	0.27	0.008	1.19	0.738	1.15	0.753
Was told where to resupply (ref: No)
Yes, community location	–	–	3.43	0.003	0.58	0.157
Yes, health facility	–	–	3.66	< 0.001	0.49	0.033
Yes, pharmacy	–	–	0.75	0.651	0.41	0.103
Yes, other	–	–	0.47	0.717	0.56	0.749
History of FP use
Ever use modern contraception	2.32	0.025	1.37	0.381	0.53	0.054
Ever used that method previously	0.95	0.917	0.46	0.046	0.56	0.075
Sociodemographics
Age group (ref: 15–24)
25–34	0.98	0.960	0.67	0.327	0.55	0.089
35–49	1.57	0.474	0.75	0.623	0.76	0.596
Education level (ref: none)
Primary	1.46	0.490	0.82	0.731	0.99	0.980
Secondary or higher	1.51	0.489	0.65	0.477	1.37	0.566
Married/living in union	0.36	0.006	0.31	0.001	0.59	0.091
Number of living children	0.92	0.578	1.21	0.184	1.14	0.293
Desired time until next child (ref: < 1 year)
1–2 year	1.70	0.079	0.31	0.196	0.30	0.304
2+ years	0.11	0.026	0.27	0.143	0.33	0.332
No more children	0.13	0.064	0.25	0.175	0.28	0.312
Observations	869		530		388

The sample for model 1 consists of all clients, the sample for model 2 consists of women who selected a short-acting method at baseline, and the sample for model 3 consists of women who selected a short-acting method at baseline which requires routine resupply (oral pills, DMPA-SC). EC users have been excluded from all models due to the small sample size (n = 7)

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