The Effectiveness Of Natural Family Planning

by John Kippley

Part 5 — REFERENCES

Part 1: Introduction: The Effectiveness of NFP
Part 2: Method Effectiveness
Part 3: User Effectiveness
Part 4: The Ethics of FDA and ACOG Regarding NFP
Part 5: References

1. Maclyn E. Wade, Phyllis McCarthy, et al., "A Randomized Prospective Study of the Use-Effectiveness of Two Methods of Natural Family Planning," Am J. Ob. and Gyn. 141:4(Oct 15, 1981) 368-376.

2. World Health Organization, "A Prospective Multicentre Trial of the Ovulation Method of Natural Family Planning. II. The Effectiveness Phase," Fertility and Sterility 36:5 (November, 1981) 591-598.

3. Frank J. Rice and Claude A. Lanctot, "Results of a Recent Study of the Sympto-Thermal Method of Natural Family Planning," Linacre Quarterly 45:4 (November, 1978), 388-391.

4. Josef Roetzer, "The Sympto-Thermal Method: Ten Years of Change," Linacre Quarterly 45:4 (November, 1978) 370.

5. G.K. Döring, "The Reliability of Temperature Records as a Method of Contraception," (Über die Zuverlassigkeit der Temperaturmethode Zur Empfangnisverhutung) Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift 92:23 (June 9, 1967), 1055-1061. Abstracted in 1968 Yearbook of Obstetrics and Gynecology, p. 354.

6. B. Vincent et al., Methode Thermique a et Contraception: Approaches medicale et psychosociologique (Paris: Masson, 1967) 52-73.

7. Wade, op. cit.

8. W.H.O., op. cit.

9. Rice, op. cit.

10. Roetzer, op. cit.

11. Döring, op. cit.

12. Frederick S. Jaffe, "Commentary: Some Policy and Program Implications of 'Contraceptive Failure in the United States,'" Family Planning Perspectives 5:3 (Summer, 1983) 133-142. Delayers (spacers) are reported to have these pregnancy rates with the various methods: Pill, 7%; IUD, 15%; condoms, 21%; diaphragms, 25%; foam, 36%; douche, 47%.

13. Judith Willis, "Comparing Contraceptives," FDA Consumer 19:4 (May, 1985) 28-35.

14. Mario Jaramillo-Gomez and Juan B. Londono, "Rhythm: A Hazardous Contraceptive Method," Demography 5:1 (1968) 433-438.

15. Jorge E. Medina, M.D., "Comparative evaluation of two methods of natural family planning in Colombia," Am J. Ob. and Gyn. 138:8 (Dec. 15, 1980) 1142-1147.

16. F.J. Rice, C.A. Lanctot and Consuelo Garcia-Devesa, "The Effectiveness of the Sympto-Thermal Method of Natural Family Planning. An International Study." (Mimeographed reprint of an address given June 23, 1977, at the scientific congress held in conjunction with the First General Assembly of the International Federation for Family Life Promotion in Cali, Colombia.) p. 8.

17. Wade, op. cit.

18. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Benefits, Risks & Effectiveness of Contraception, 1985.

19. Allen L. Schirm and others, "Contraceptive Failure in the United States: The Impact of Social, Economic and Demographic Factors," Family Planning Perspectives 14:2 (March/April, 1982) 68-75.

20. Robert A. Hatcher and others, Contaceptive Technology 1984-1985, (New York: Irvington) 1984.

21. Ibid., Table 1:1.

22. Bureau of Community Health Services, Natural Family Planning, DHEW Publication No. (HSA) 79-5621.

23. Wade, op. cit.