Table 1: Anticipated contraception behavior change after pregnancy. The survey asked two questions regarding contraception behavior with the same five answer choices, listed above: "Before you became pregnant with this pregnancy, did you use an effective method of birth control?" and "After my delivery, I plan to use an effective method of birth control?" comparing results, there is a 30.6% increase in the number of women who plan to always use contraception following delivery. There is a 9.5% decrease in the number of women who plan to never use contraception after delivery.
Prior to pregnancy (n = 236) | After delivery (n = 226) | p-value | |
Always | 119 (50.4%) | 183 (81.0%) | < 0.000001 |
Almost always | 39 (16.5%) | 16 (7.1%) | 0.0009 |
Sometimes | 28 (11.9%) | 12 (5.3%) | 0.006 |
Almost never | 16 (6.8%) | 4 (1.8%) | 0.004 |
Never | 34 (14.4%) | 11 (4.9%) | 0.003 |