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Achieving Pregnancy Using Primary Care Interventions To Identify The Fertile Window, Thomas Bouchard, Richard Fehring, Mary Schneider
Achieving Pregnancy Using Primary Care Interventions To Identify The Fertile Window, Thomas Bouchard, Richard Fehring, Mary Schneider
College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications
Objective: To determine the effectiveness of achieving pregnancy with focused intercourse in the fertile window identified using natural fertility indicators. Methods: 24-cycle prospective effectiveness study. Setting: A North American web-based fertility monitoring service. Participants: 256 North American women aged 20–43 (mean age 29.2 years) seeking to achieve pregnancy. Intervention: Participants identified their fertile window with either electronic hormonal fertility monitoring or cervical mucus monitoring, or both, and recorded their observations on an online fertility tracking system. Main outcome measures: Pregnancies were validated by nurses with an online self-assessed pregnancy evaluation form. Survival analysis was used to determine pregnancy rates. Results: …