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Table 3 Source of information of study participants at public hospitals in Sidama region Ethiopia, August 2022 (n = 373)

From: Informed choice and its associated factors among women received immediate postpartum long-acting reversible contraceptives at public hospitals in Sidama Regional State, Ethiopia, 2022

Variables

Frequency

Percent (%)

Read the newspaper

 Not at all

341

91.4

 Less than once a week

16

4.3

 At least once a week

16

4.3

Listen to the radio

 Not at all

241

64.6

 Less than once a week

37

9.9

 At least once a week

95

25.5

Watch the television

 Not at all

286

76.7

 Less than once a week

40

10.7

 At least once a week

47

12.6

Own a mobile telephone

 Yes

118

31.6

 No

255

68.4

Do you use the Internet

 Yes

15

4.0

 No

358

96.0

Heard about LARCs on the radio in the last few months

 Yes

116

31.1

 No

257

68.9

Heard about LARCs on television in the last months

 Yes

75

20.1

 No

298

79.9

Read about LARCsat on poster/leaflet

 Yes

28

7.5

 No

345

92.5

Heard about LARC at the community event/ conversation

 Yes

165

44.2

 No

208

55.8

Seen anything about LARCs on the Internet

 Yes

15

4.0

 No

358

96.0

Seen posters advertising LARCs in the facility

 Yes

143

38.3

 No

230

61.7