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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
Richard J Fehring
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 …