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calendar method
noun
A rhythm method of natural birth control.
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This led to her relying on the calendar method.
"I use the calendar method," says 29-year-old Chifundo Mwalilino, a midwife at Likuni mission hospital.
This review presents an overview of the life-events calendar method for criminologists.
Second to condom use, the combination of the calendar method and condom use was also popular (13.1%).
For these reasons the life-events calendar method should be regarded as a viable option for criminologists.
First designated in the nineteen-thirties, the rhythm or calendar method was based on research by two physicians, one Austrian and one Japanese.
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To avoid negative side effects, women and husbands reported using condoms or switching to traditional methods (rhythm or calendar methods).
A handful of alcohol treatment studies (Kranzler et al. 2004, 2014; Lincoln et al. 2011) have compared real-time and calendar methods to assess drinking outcomes.
These findings generally are consistent with the larger literature comparing real-time and calendar methods in community and college-student samples (Shiffman 2009).
Taken together, these findings suggest that although calendar methods appear to be less accurate in capturing day-to-day variations in drinking patterns and may underestimate consumption, especially in cases of longer recall periods, they seem to be adequate for capturing aggregate measures of drinking outcome.
The accuracy of EMA has been compared with standard self-report measures using three types of approaches: EMA analyses of drinking have been compared to calendar methods, such as timeline follow-back (TLFB) interviews (Sobell et al. 1996) to assess drinking outcomes.
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