Comparing Women's Contraceptive Preferences With Their Choices in 5 Urban Family Planning Clinics in Ghana

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Women's Stated Preferences About Contraceptive Method Characteristics and Side Effects, Kumasi and Accra, Ghana (N=414) (percentage who agreed or strongly agreed with the statements)
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Consistency Between Women's Chosen Contraceptive Method and Their Stated Preferences for Duration of Effectiveness and Intolerable Side Effects, Along With Percentage of Women Counseled to Expect Bleeding Changes With Their Chosen Method

TABLE 1.

Background Characteristics of Participants, Kumasi and Accra, Ghana (N=414)

TABLE 2.

Women's Contraceptive Method Choices, Pre- and Post-Counseling, Kumasi and Accra, Ghana

Method	Preferred Method at Pre-Counseling (N=414)	Method Choice Post-Counseling (N=336)
Implant	172 (41.5)	135 (40.2)
Injectable	125 (30.2)	109 (32.4)
IUD	58 (14.0)	52 (15.5)
Pill	20 (4.8)	27 (8.0)
Female sterilization	17 (4.1)	11 (3.3)
Male condom	2 (0.5)	2 (0.6)
Don't know	20 (4.8)	NA

TABLE 3.

Percentage of Women Who Reported Being Counseled to Expect Commonly Occurring Side Effects by Method Adopted

Method and Side Effect Counseled to Expect	No. (%)
Implant (N=135)
Irregular bleeding	28 (20.7)
Decreased bleeding	14 (10.4)
No menses	37 (27.4)
Not counseled on any of these side effects	39 (28.9)
Injectables (N=109)
Decreased bleeding	12 (11.0)
No menses	46 (42.2)
Weight gain	13 (11.9)
Not counseled on any of these side effects	34 (31.2)
IUD (N=52)
Irregular bleeding	6 (11.5)
Increased bleeding	16 (30.8)
Not counseled on any of these side effects	26 (50.0)