Marital status, age, and contraceptive use at baseline by intervention group and study site
| Antananarivo | Tamatave | Both sites | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peer only(n = 250) | Peer + clinic (n = 250) | Peer only (n = 250) | Peer + clinic(n = 250) | Peer only (n = 500) | Peer + clinic (n = 500) | |||||||
| No | % | No | % | No | % | No | % | No | % | No | % | |
| *Women could report more than one marital status. | ||||||||||||
| †Women could report more than one contraceptive method. | ||||||||||||
| ‡Includes spermicides, surgical sterilisation, IUDs, Norplant, natural methods. | ||||||||||||
| Marital status* | ||||||||||||
| Single without steady boyfriend | 27 | 10.8 | 32 | 12.8 | 151 | 60.4 | 161 | 64.4 | 178 | 35.6 | 193 | 38.6 |
| Single with steady boyfriend | 53 | 21.2 | 48 | 19.2 | 92 | 36.8 | 80 | 32.0 | 145 | 29.0 | 128 | 25.6 |
| Cohabiting | 57 | 22.8 | 46 | 18.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.8 | 57 | 11.4 | 48 | 9.6 |
| Married, living with spouse | 2 | 0.8 | 4 | 1.6 | 2 | 0.8 | 3 | 1.2 | 4 | 0.8 | 7 | 1.4 |
| Married, living apart from spouse | 2 | 0.8 | 2 | 0.8 | 1 | 0.4 | 2 | 0.8 | 3 | 0.6 | 4 | 0.8 |
| Widowed | 11 | 4.4 | 23 | 9.2 | 1 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 12 | 2.4 | 23 | 4.6 |
| Separated/divorced | 111 | 44.4 | 108 | 43.2 | 6 | 2.4 | 6 | 2.4 | 117 | 23.4 | 114 | 22.8 |
| Contraceptive method use† | ||||||||||||
| Pills | 15 | 6.0 | 12 | 4.8 | 18 | 7.2 | 17 | 6.8 | 33 | 6.6 | 29 | 5.8 |
| Injectable | 24 | 9.6 | 31 | 12.4 | 14 | 5.6 | 24 | 9.6 | 38 | 7.6 | 55 | 11.0 |
| Male condoms | 1 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.8 | 3 | 1.2 | 3 | 0.6 | 3 | 0.6 |
| Other‡ | 1 | 0.4 | 6 | 2.4 | 2 | 0.8 | 1 | 0.4 | 3 | 0.6 | 7 | 1.4 |
| Age | ||||||||||||
| Mean | 28.2 | 28.5 | 27.6 | 28.7 | 27.9 | 28.6 | ||||||
| Median | 27 | 27 | 26 | 28 | 26 | 27 | ||||||