Table 4B Additional questions versus the two assessments (pregnancy-specific intention and desire-versus-actual family size) among unintended pregnancies
Existing questions | Additional questions | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Perceived importance of avoiding/delaying the last pregnancy n (%) | Contraception usage at the time n (%) | Consideration of termination n (%) | |||||||||||
Very important | Somewhat important | Not at all important | Overall | p value | Yes | No | Overall | p value | Considered | Not Considered | Overall | p value | |
Pregnancy-specific reporting (n = 2021) |  |  |  |  | 0.39 |  |  |  | 0.0001 |  |  |  | 0.88 |
  Unwanted n (%) | 243 (84.8) | 27 (9.6) | 16 (5.6) | 286 (100) |  | 116 (40.7) | 170 (59.3) | 286 (100) |  | 56 (19.4) | 231 (80.1) | 286 (100) |  |
  Mistimed n (%) | 1435 (82.7) | 212 (12.2) | 88 (5.1) | 1735 (100) |  | 480 (27.7) | 1254 (72.3) | 1735 (100) |  | 344 (19.9) | 1390 (80.2) | 1735 (100) |  |
Desired-versus-actual family size (n = 1810) |  |  |  |  | 0.26 |  |  |  | 0.16 |  |  |  | 0.25 |
  Undesired n (%) | 374 (80.8) | 59 (12.7) | 30 (6.6) | 463 (100) |  | 155 (33.5) | 308 (66.5) | 463 (100) |  | 86 (18.6) | 376 (81.4) | 463 (100) |  |
  Desired n (%) | 1132 (84.0) | 154 (11.4) | 61 (4.5) | 1347 (100) |  | 395 (29.3) | 952 (70.7) | 1347 (100) |  | 293 (21.7) | 1054 (78.3) | 1347 (100) |  |