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Table 2 Associations between health services in school and consistency of contraceptive use among female students

From: Association between college health services and contraceptive use among female students at five colleges in Wuhan, China: a cross-sectional study

Characteristic

Low vs. High frequency

Not fully vs. Fully

 

Low

High

OR(95 %CI)

Not fully

Fully

OR(95 %CI)

N = 245

N = 670

N = 597

N = 318

 Individual characteristics

  Age

    < 20

40.4

31.2

0.58(0.41,0.83)*

36.3

40.7

1.21(0.91,1.61)

    ≥ 20

59.6

68.8

Reference

63.7

59.3

Reference

  Relationship status

   casual

17.4

18.9

0.94(0.72,2.38)

22.2

19.2

0.67(0.44,1.00)*

   steady

72.6

71.1

Reference

74.6

78.5

Reference

  Grade

      

   Senior

51.4

60.3

1.18(0.86–1.53)

55.2

56.1

1.05(0.82–1.59)

   Junior

48.6

39.7

Reference

44.8

43.9

Reference

  Provision of health related publications

   Yes

51.4

58.7

1.25(0.86,1.73)

56.9

64.6

1.38(1.04,1.84)*

   No

48.6

41.3

Reference

43.1

35.4

Reference

  Availability of designed Web site

   Yes

59.2

78.1

1.85(1.42,2.56)**

72.4

73.5

1.06(0.77,1.45)

   No

40.8

21.9

Reference

27.6

26.5

Reference

  School education

   Yes

31.3

22.6

0.76(0.54,1.13)

29.0

25.5

0.84(0.61,1.15)

   No

68.7

77.4

Reference

71.0

74.5

Reference

  Provision of contraceptives

   Yes

10.2

23.1

1.53(1.16, 2.76)*

22.5

26.2

1.22(0.88,1.68)

   No/don’t know

79.8

76.9

Reference

77.5

73.8

Reference

  Provision of birth control counseling

   Yes

11.9

16.6

1.26(0.89,2.10)

12.7

18.5

1.57(1.07,2.30)*

   No/don’t know

88.1

83.4

Reference

87.3

81.5

Reference

  Convenient getting contraceptives

   Yes

12.0

21.6

2.14(1.53,3.28)***

9.5

16.3

2.55(1.55,4.20)***

   No

88.0

78.4

Reference

90.5

83.7

Reference

  Convenient getting birth control counseling

   Yes

8.7

16.4

2.34(1.49,3.81)***

7.6

10.6

1.43(0.87,2.37)

   No

91.3

83.7

Reference

92.4

89.4

Reference

  1. ***p < 0 .001; **p < 0.01; *p < 0 .05