The Fertility Awareness-based Methods：A Review
ZHANG Yan-ping
ZHANG Mei-hua
GAI Ling
YANG Dan-tong
WANG Lei-guang
Abstract：The fertility awareness-based methods (FAMs),a kind of natural family planning method, are often used to guide the pregnancy and contraception. FAMs are welcome by some people of childbearing age because of its pure natural, no side effect and no involvement with the moral and ethical problem. The failure rate of FAMs is about 1%-5%. FAMs are mainly applied in those pre-marital people and newly married couples in China. However, they don′t know much about FAMs, even those obstetrics and gynecology doctors, which leads to the improper use of FAMs and the high contraceptive failure rate. The mechanism, methods, and research progress of FAMs were reviewed in this paper, so as to promote the use of FAMs, to lower the unwanted pregnancy and to develop the reproductive health in China.
Keywords：Natural family planning methodsOvulationContraceptionReproductive health services
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 56-59 )