Fertility Awareness Effectiveness

A thirty-month clinical experience in natural family planning

Kambic R, Kambic M, Brixius AM, Miller S

Published November 1981 American journal of public health
DOI 10.2105/ajph.71.11.1255 PMID 7294271

Abstract

A Natural Family Planning service was evaluated at the end of a 30-month developmental phase. There were 444 women taught and 322 method acceptor of which 248 intended to avoid pregnancy. NFP clients were older (mean age 26.9 vs 22.4 and 23.7 for comparison groups), and a larger percentage were married (83.1 per cent vs 23.0 per cent for the comparison group). After one year of use, the unplanned pregnancy rate was 14.4 per cent and the total dropout rate was 37.6 per cent by life table analysis.

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PMID 7294271 7294271 DOI 10.2105/ajph.71.11.1255 10.2105/ajph.71.11.1255 Kambic et al. 1981, Kambic 1981