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Developing Mhealth Solutions For Natural Family Planning, Md Miftah Uddin
Developing Mhealth Solutions For Natural Family Planning, Md Miftah Uddin
Master's Theses (2009 -)
Natural Family Planning (NFP) is a method to help couples determine the fertile and infertile times of a woman’s menstrual cycle with natural indicators of fertility. NFP methods have advantages over other methods of family planning. Proper use of NFP methods also ensures high effectiveness (close to 98%) in helping couples avoid pregnancy. However, very few physicians prescribe NFP to their patients due to lack of credibility to the fertility methods and lack of access to NFP knowledge. The Marquette University College of Nursing Institute for Natural Family Planning has been researching for many years to increase knowledge and efficiency …