Awareness and knowledge on legal aspects and abortion methods at baseline and endline by intervention and comparison districts of Bihar and Jharkhand
| HIM districts | LIM districts | Comparison districts | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BL (%) n=702 | EL (%) n=786 | p Value | BL (%) n=720 | EL (%) n=820 | p Value | BL (%) n=709 | EL (%) n=814 | p Value | |
| Aware that abortion is legal | |||||||||
| Yes, legal | 41 | 63 | <0.01 | 20 | 59 | <0.01 | 41 | 41 | 0.98 |
| No, illegal | 48 | 15 | <0.01 | 13 | 13 | 0.63 | 48 | 17 | <0.01 |
| No idea/Do not know | 12 | 22 | <0.01 | 68 | 28 | <0.01 | 11 | 42 | <0.01 |
| Knowledge on legal gestational age limit | |||||||||
| 20 weeks | 3 | 6 | 0.01 | 0 | 4 | <0.01 | 1 | 2 | 0.29 |
| 12 weeks | 38 | 29 | <0.01 | 4 | 36 | <0.01 | 37 | 22 | <0.01 |
| Other responses/No idea | 60 | 66 | 0.02 | 96 | 61 | <0.01 | 63 | 76 | <0.01 |
| Know both abortion is legal and legal gestational age limit | 0 | 5 | <0.01 | 0 | 3 | <0.01 | 1 | 2 | 0.082 |
| Know legal sources of abortion services | 45 | 49 | 0.12 | 20 | 30 | <0.01 | 43 | 39 | 0.08 |
| Know both abortion is legal and legal sources of abortion services | 21 | 35 | <0.01 | 6 | 21 | <0.01 | 21 | 20 | 0.49 |
| Know all three: abortion is legal, legal gestational age limit and legal sources of abortion services | 0 | 3 | <0.01 | 0 | 2 | 0.03 | 0 | 1 | 0.02 |
BL, baseline; EL, endline.