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Figure 11: Contraceptive method used during last 12 months
Baitambogwe. Whereas the results in the figure above show that contraceptive use was slightly higher in the intervention area (53.85%) than the control (46.15%), the difference is not that striking. This is further confirmed by the results of Pearson chi-square analysis where the P-value of 0.384 is much higher than the alpha of 0.05 to suggest a statistically significant relationship. Likewise, analysis by respondent sex, age and marital status did not also show a significant relationship to explain the slight difference in the use of contraceptives by young people.
Results on the contraceptive method used indicate that majority and indeed more than half of (55%) all the young people interviewed used male condoms, followed by injectables (26%) and withdrawal (8%) as shown in figure 11 below.
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Figure 11: Contraceptive method used during last 12 months.
The least used contraceptive methods were female condoms (1%), lactational amenorrhea and implants. The limited use of lactational amenorrhea as a contraceptive method is not surprising considering that majority of the young people who participated in this survey were not married/not in a union, and therefore more likely not to have had children or been breastfeeding. On the other hand, the preference for male condoms may be explained by their availability at the health facility as well as in the community where peer educators reportedly distributed them in open and public places such as trading centres and their homes:
Lactational Pills, 4.62 amenorrhea,
Implants, 3.08 1.54
Female condoms, 1.54 Injectables, 26.15 Male condoms, 55.38
Withdrawal, 7.69
We used to receive condoms at home, that we would give to the young people that needed them during the COVID-19 period. I believe every peer educator had condoms in their homes. So that was one of the measures that we had during the lockdown (Reach A Hand Peer Educator)
One of the interventions during the lockdown was the distribution of male Condom by putting them at an open place in public like at trading centres and places of convenience (Secretary for Health and Social Services, Mayuge)
