CME Pre-Assessment: Knowledge & Experience with FABMs

Knowledge assessment

Thank you for completing this pre-assessment of your ' knowledge and experience with natural or fertility awareness based methods (NFP /FABMs) of family planning.

Part 1: Questions are designed to assess your baseline knowledge of these methods.

Part 2: Questions are designed to assess your familiarity and experience with these methods.

Part 3: Questions are designed to provide basic demographic information.

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* 1. After ovulation, the egg can be fertilized for a period of approximately...

6 to 10 hours

12 to 24 hours

36 to 48 hours

2 to 4 days

3 to 5 days

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* 2. When stretchy, lubricative mucus is present in the female genital tract, sperm can live

Up to 24 hours

Up to 48 hours

3 to 5 days

8 to 10 days

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* 3. During a woman's cycle, when is Progesterone produced in highest amount?

A few days after ovulation.

A few days before ovulation.

During first days of menstruation.

A few days before Peak Day.

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* 4. A 31-year old woman is using the Billings Ovulation Method to avoid pregnancy. She tells you that she had some dry days after her menses, but today she has a wet feeling. Select the advice you would give.

Today is infertile, if she does not observe mucus

All the dry days of her cycle are infertile days

Cervical mucus may have begun and today is considered fertile

Fertile mucus feels sticky or pasty, not wet

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* 5. Which of the following is true regarding the Two Day Method:

Effectiveness rates with typical use are about 80%.

A woman is considered infertile after her basal body temperature remains elevated for two consecutive days

A pregnancy is unlikely if a woman does not notice cervical secretions for two consecutive days.

A pregnancy is likely beginning two days after the menses ends.

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* 6. To use the Standard Days Method the woman must have menstrual cycles lasting:

20 to 30 days

25 to 35 days

26 to 32 days

28 days

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* 7. In the Couple to Couple League’s sympto-thermal method, the primary fertility sign(s) charted are...

Cervix aperture/hardness and cervical mucus sensations/characteristics

Basal body temperature and cervix aperture/hardness

Cervical mucus sensations/characteristics

Cervical mucus sensations/characteristics and basal body temperature

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* 8. The fertility monitor utilized in the Marquette Model is designed to measure the thresholds of which two hormones?

Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) and Luteinizing Hormone (LH)

Estradiol and Progesterone

Estradiol and Luteinizing Hormone (LH)

Luteinizing Hormone (LH) and Progesterone

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* 9. What 3 criteria need to be met for a woman to use the Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM)?

Fully to nearly fully breastfeeding, no menses return, infant less than 3 months of age

Fully to nearly fully breastfeeding, no menses return, infant less than 6 months of age

Fully to nearly fully breastfeeding, no menses return, infant is less than 9 months of age

Breastfeeding, any bleeding within the ﬁrst 2 months postpartum, infant is less than 6 months of age

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* 10. Natural Procreative Technology or NaPro, a new approach to women’s health care, enables Creighton trained Medical Consultants, to diagnose and treat infertility. In published studies that examined the use of medical NaPro Technology to treat infertility, the overwhelming majority of patients were discovered to have:

Limited cervical mucus

Suboptimal luteal progesterone

Suboptimal luteal estrogen

Endometriosis

Polycystic ovarian syndrome