“A Social Science Perspective of Research Issues for Natural Family Planning.”
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From a social science perspective, the grass-roots NFP movement has been challenges to grow and expand. Many reasons are offered as contributing factors to this challenge including: dissatisfaction with chemical and surgical sterilization procedures, requirements of governments to offer NFP services, and increasing expression of unacceptability from religious groups as well as a loss of intimacy suggested through the wide-spread use of contraception. Personal knowledge and awareness of fertility potential, encouragement of self-knowledge and confidence in making parenthood decisions by couples are cited as strong motivors for using NFP.These positive human meanings are contrasted with the awarding of the control of fertility to health care professionals as in the use of contraception. Dr Borkman further expressed the view that periodic abstinence seems to strengthen marital roles and couple communication.Ineffectiveness of rhythm and the requirement for periodic sexual abstinence are identified as potential source of resistance to the NFP innovation. Experiential learning is suggested as the major learning framework underlying the successful use of the methods in individual couples' lives. Areas recommended for NFP research include: 1) exploratory descriptive models of value orientation and meanings, 2) experiential learning and development of couple autonomy in the practice of NFP, 3) positive and negative impact of NFP on users and couple, 4) acceptability of NFP for potential users and providers, 5) impact of values and practices on continuation and effectiveness rates of NFP, 6) demonstration and evaluation of NFP programs through operational research, and 7) feasibility studies on NFP in the mainstream of family planning agencies. |
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Borkman Thomasina, PhD. |
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