Over 100 Participant Couples!

We just want to announce that we are now at 108 couples in the study. Thank you to all participants and practitioners for your involvement! We would like to encourage all of you to share your enthusiasm for the Creighton Model by talking to your friends and family about it! We would love to have more participants.

Check this out!

Hello Folks!

Here is an interesting video that we would like to share with you.
Please click on the link below to view it:

http://www.5min.com/Video/Natural-Family-Planning-427016389

If you find the clipping informative and useful, get your family and friends to watch it.

We're in the news!

Couples sought for family-planning study

The Salt Lake Tribune
Updated Jul 16, 2010 05:08PM

University of Utah medical researcher Joseph Stanford is looking for couples to participate in a national study into the Creighton method of Natural Family Planning (NFP).

Stanford is the lead researcher for the study, which is being funded by the U.S. Office of Public Health and Science. It will be conducted at 13 centers that teach couples to use the Creighton method, including the nonprofit that Stanford is involved with, Intermountain FertilityCare in Salt Lake City.

The Creighton method teaches couples how to know when the woman is ovulating and likely to get pregnant through charting of her vaginal discharges.

Though the method also can be used by those trying to get pregnant, researchers are looking for 300 couples who are beginning to use it to avoid pregnancy.

It has been 11 years since the last in-depth study, and the data need refreshing, Stanford said.

Plus, this study will look specifically at a dynamic practitioners have noticed: that 20 percent of the couples using the Creighton method to avoid pregnancy will at some point in the first year begin, instead, to use it to conceive.

So far, 50 have signed up, none of them in Utah.

Participants will need to get training in the Creighton method, which costs about $295 in the first year depending on how many times the couple meet with a trainer, and roughly $30 to $60 each year after that.

Most of the data will be gathered online and participants will be paid a small stipend, Stanford said.

Kristen Moulton

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/49935011-80/method-couples-creighton-information.html.csp

50 Couples (100 Participants)!

We are steadily increasing our numbers and we want to thank the practitioners for recruiting and the participants for their willingness to be a part of the study. Hope everyone had a great 4th of July!

Meet Daisy, the Study Participant Coordinator!

Daisy Krakowiak has recently completed her Master of Public Health degree at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She is on the study team for the Creighton Effectiveness, Intentions and Behavior Assessment (CEIBA), where she communicates regularly with study participants. Her career goals are to work in the areas of Global Health and Epidemiology. This summer, Daisy will be leading a public health trip to Ghana and will be assessing reproductive health near Kumasi.

Daisy graduated summa cum laude from the University of Utah with a triple bachelor’s degree in Political Science, Sociology, and Behavioral Science & Health as well as a minor in International Studies. In her spare time, she likes to travel, hike, and ski.

40 Couples (80 Participants)!

We would like to recognize all the hard work of our participating FertilityCare Practitioners who have worked hard to recruit more participants for our study. We would also like to thank all of our participants for keeping up with their questionnaires. However, we still need more participants -- we'd like to get 300 couples by December. Let's continue to work hard to make this happen!

Doubled our participants!

We now have 50 participants in our study (25 couples)! We want to give a special shout out to Nancy Matteoli in Sacramento for her hard work in enrolling clients this month!

Online consent has now been approved. This will allow potential participants to give their consent to participate right from our website!

In other good news, participants will now be reimbursed up to $40! Participants who have already joined will be reimbursed retroactively. We will be contacting you soon to get you your checks :)

Best,

Daisy Krakowiak
CEIBA Participant Coordinator

Hello Everybody,
The CEIBA study is rollin'and kicking! We have 26 participants(13 couples). We find this opportunity to thank the participating centers in their continued efforts to make the study a success and special round of applause to the participants for enrolling and completing the questionnaires.

Cheers

Ceiba Team
ceibastudy@gmail.com

(801) 231-6434

Participant Update!

Hello CEIBA Team and Participants!

I just wanted to update everyone that we now have 8 couples participating in the study, including a new couple from Duluth, MN. Team, thank you for your continued effort in recruitment. Participants, thank you for enrolling and completing your questionnaires!

Best,

Daisy Krakowiak
CEIBA Participant Coordinator
ceibastudy@gmail.com
(801) 231-6434