Volume 26, Number 4, December 2000

TABLES


Table 1. Percentage of survey respondents with selected characteristics, or mean value of selected measures, by timing of survey and Apwe Plezi listenership category, St. Lucia
Characteristic Timing Listenership
Pretest Posttest Non-listener Casual listener Regular listener
(N=753) (N=1,238) (N=799) (N=288) (N=151)
Urban residence 18 25* 23 29 31*
<=primary school education 45 42* 46 29 45*
Own a radio 96 92* 90 95 95*
Live in town with condoms available 91 80* 78 86 83*
Live in town with family planning available 83 70* 68 74 73
Catholic 71 63* 63 59 65
Speak Creole at home 54 67* 69 63 66
In union 36 44* 45 44 42
Male 48 49 54 44 33*
Mean parity (and standard error) 1.6 (0.1) 1.6 (0.1) 1.7 (0.1) 1.3 (0.1) 1.9 (0.2)*
Listen to Radio St. Lucia often or most often 38 39 34 44 57*
Mean age (and standard error) 29.3 (0.4) 28.7 (0.3) 28.9 (0.3) 27.8 (0.5) 29.4 (0.8)
Listen to Radio Helen 100 often or most often na 65 63 69 66
Regular or casual listener to Apwe Plezi na 35 na 100 100
Regular listener to Apwe Plezi na 12 na 0 100
*Difference between surveys or between listeners and nonlisteners is statistically significant at p<=.05. Note: na=not applicable.

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Figure 1. Percentage of regular listeners to Apwe Plezi, by self-reports of the program's effects on their knowledge and attitudes, according to theme

Theme

%
Note: Percentages for knowledge changes reflect unprompted responses; percentages for attitude changes reflect prompted responses.

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Table 2. Percentage of respondents, or mean value, by knowledge, attitude and behavior measures addressed by Apwe Plezi, according to timing of survey and listenership category; and multivariate results from analysis of relationship between timing of survey or listenership category and measure
Measure Timing Listenership
Pretest Posttest Multivariate result Non-listener Casual listener Regular listener Multi-variate result
Knowledge
Are aware of the pill 77 83 1.6** 84 82 80 ns
Know that Catapult is a type of condom na 16 na 14 17 26 2.2**
Know that HIV is spread by homosexual intercourse 90 93 1.6** 93 93 90 ns
Believe that HIV is spread by caring for AIDS patient 24 37 1.9** 37 38 36 ns
Attitude
Believe it is possible to determine one's family size 60 62 1.5** 60 68 60 ns
Mean ideal age for women's first birth (and standard error)† 23.4 (0.2) 22.6 (0.1) -0.8** 22.7 (0.2) 22.4 (0.2) 23.0 (0.4) ns
Mean ideal number of children (and standard error)† 2.7 (0.1) 2.8 (0.1) ns 2.9 (0.1) 2.8 (0.1) 2.5 (0.1) -0.4**
Believe men can have other sexual partners after marriage 27 14 0.5** 16 12 10 ns
Believe women can have more than one sexual partner before marriage 33 29 ns 30 33 19 0.5**
Believe a wife needs her husband's consent to work 84 71 0.4** 71 74 62 ns
Believe parents should impose their will on children 75 68 0.7** 71 63 63 0.8*
Intend to use family planning§ 47 39 0.7* 37 46 35 ns
Believe that you can trust staff at family planning clinics 84 75 ns 72 78 83 1.5*
Behavior
Talked to spouse/partner about family planning 77 67 0.6** 65 72 65 ns
Talked to same-sex friend about family planning 69 57 0.6** 52 69 57 1.9**
Talked to a family planning worker 37 27 0.6** 26 27 30 ns
Currently use modern methodof family planning†† 53 54 ns 55 58 47 ns
Currently use condoms†† 21 24 ns 24 20 31 ns
Pregnant/partner is pregnant 6 7 ns 7 7 6 ns
Cite STD prevention as the main reason for using family planning§§ 9 13 ns 12 14 10 ns
*p<=.05. **p<=.01. †Based on respondents who gave numeric responses: 466 respondents in the pretest and 686 (429 nonlisteners, 165 casual listeners and 92 regular listeners) in the posttest. †Based on respondents who gave numeric responses: 493 respondents in the pretest and 755 (463 nonlisteners, 190 casual listeners and 102 regular listeners) in the posttest. §Based on nonusers: 380 respondents in the pretest and 661 (433 nonlisteners, 145 casual listeners and 83 regular listeners) in the posttest. ††Based on women in union: 146 respondents in the pretest and 270 (170 nonlisteners, 62 casual listeners and 38 regular listeners) in the posttest. ††Based on men in union: 120 respondents in the pretest and 277 (186 nonlisteners, 65 casual listeners and 26 regular listeners) in the posttest. §§Based on users: 318 respondents in the pretest and 542 (340 nonlisteners, 139 casual listeners and 63 regular listeners) in the posttest. Notes: Multivariate results for categorical variables are odds ratios from logistic regression and for continuous variables are coefficients from analyses of variance. na=not applicable. ns=not statistically significant. For results of multivariate analysis using other independent variables, see appendix (page 156).

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Table 3. Volume of imports of condoms and of chemical contraceptives, and number of new family planning acceptors at SLPPA clinics, by year
Measure No.
Condom imports (kg)
1995 1,791
1996 1,884
1997 2,008
1998 2,904
1999 7,043
Chemical methods imports (kg)†
1995 676
1996 617
1997 1,225
1998 1,197
1999 1,292
New acceptors
1994 879
1995 887
1996 932
1997 1,053
1998 1,107
1999 1,175
†Hormonal and spermicidal methods.

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Figure 2. Number of births to all women and teenage women in St. Lucia, 1990-1999
No. of births

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