Table 3 Variables collected in the study

Main variable

Adherence to treatment:

• Compliance with dose and method of administration and

• Persistence in the duration of the prescribed treatment

Secondary variables

Woman’s sociodemographic characteristics:

• Age

• Level of education

• Occupation

• Marital status/partner

Contact details

• Telephone

• Telephone 2

Medical history:

• Smoker

• HBP

• Uterine malformations

Obstetric and gynaecological history:

• Menstrual pattern

• Miscarriage

• VTP

• Living children

Contraceptive method

• Contraceptive method considered by the patient before counselling

• Experiences with other methods

• Woman’s attitude towards compliance (Morisky-Green treatment adherence test)

• Contraceptive finally chosen

• Incidents with the chosen method

• Incident management

Decisional conflict

The woman’s decisional conflict in view of the choice of contraceptive method (O’Connor Scale) https://decisionaid.ohri.ca/eval_dcs.html

And of the professional:

• Satisfaction with the counsellor or clinician with the use of the digital SDMT (Likert scale)

• Test of knowledge prior to and after fieldwork