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Efficacy Of The Marquette Method Of Natural Family Planning, Richard Fehring, Mary Schneider, Mary Lee Barron
Efficacy Of The Marquette Method Of Natural Family Planning, Richard Fehring, Mary Schneider, Mary Lee Barron
College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications
Purpose: To determine the effectiveness of the Marquette Method (MM) of natural family planning (NFP) as a method of avoiding pregnancy. Study Design and Methods: This was a 12-month retrospective evaluation of the MM system of NFP. Two hundred and four women (mean age, 28.6 years) and their male partners (mean age, 30.3 years) who sought to learn a method for avoiding pregnancy with the MM from four clinical sites were taught to track their fertility by self-observation of cervical mucus, by use of an electronic monitor that measures urinary levels of estrone-3-glucuronide and luteinizing hormone, and by use of …
Evaluation Of The Lady Free Biotester® In Determining The Fertile Period, Richard Fehring, Nancy Gaska
Evaluation Of The Lady Free Biotester® In Determining The Fertile Period, Richard Fehring, Nancy Gaska
College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications
Small hand-held microscopes have been developed for self-observation of salivary ferning patterns to detect the fertile time of a woman’s menstrual cycle. The purpose of this study was to evaluate one such microscope, the Lady Free Biotester®, by comparing it with the self-observation of cervical-vaginal mucus and with the self-detection of luteinizing hormone (LH) in the urine. Twelve natural family planning teachers (average age 34.6 years) observed their cervical-vaginal mucus, tested their urine for LH, and observed salivary and cervical-vaginal mucus ferning patterns (with the Lady Free Biotester) for two menstrual cycles. Data indicated that there was a …