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Efficacy of the Standard Days Method of Family Planning

NCT00505609 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 478

Last updated 2007-07-23

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Summary

The Standard Days Method® is a fertility awareness-based method of family planning in which users avoid unprotected intercourse during cycle day 8 through 19. The method is most appropriate for women with cycles that usually range 26-32 days. The clinical trial tested the contraceptive efficacy of the Standard Days Method. A total of 478 women, age 18-39 years, in Bolivia, Peru, and the Philippines, with self-reported cycles of 26-32 days, desiring to delay pregnancy at least one year were admitted to the study and followed for up to 13 cycles of method use.

Conditions

  • Women's Health

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Standard Days Method

The Standard Days Method is a fertility awareness-based method of family planning. Users avoid unprotected intercourse during cycle days 8 to 19. Study participants were for up to 13 cycles of method use.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

    collaborator FED

  • Georgetown University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Victoria H. Jennings, PhD · Georgetown University

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
39 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1999-11-30
Completion
2001-10-31

Countries

  • Bolivia
  • Peru
  • Philippines

Study Locations

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