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`O Frankman and C A Ingemansson
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`The new presentation of C-Film was as-
`sessed for its tolerance, acceptability and
`efficiency in preventing pregnancy at
`three
`family planning clinics in Sweden: the WHO
`Clinical Research Centre, Karolinska Hos-
`pital, Stockholm; Mentalvardsbyran, Stock-
`holm; and the Department of Obstetrics and
`Gynaecology, Eskilstuna Hospital, Eskilstuna.
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`Materials and Methods
`Presentation. C-Film was made available by
`the manufacturers in a package containing
`ten semi-transparent films, placed between
`silver foil interleaving (Figure 1).
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`carefully
`Instructions, Each patient was
`instructed to insert one film high into the
`vagina at
`least
`five minutes before coitus.
`Another film was to be inserted if coitus
`took place later than an hourafter insertion.
`The sameinstruction applied to repeated acts
`of coitus. In the early part of the study the
`male methodof introduction was recommend-
`ed as an alternative but this was abandoned
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`following reports of an increased failure rate
`from other centres.
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`Patients. C-Film was offered to women
`attending a contraceptive clinic as a method
`which should prove as reliable as vaginal
`foam or barrier methods. The clinic doctors
`emphasized that the film would not provide
`the same degree of reliability as oral contra-
`ception or the intra-uterine device, but no
`attempt was made to limit acceptors to
`highly-motivated women whocould be expec-
`ted to use the method reliably. Womenusing
`other contraceptive methods were excluded
`from the study, as were those whostated a
`frequency of coitus ofless than once a week,
`Originally,
`265 women
`accepted
`the
`method. Twenty-eight of them were subse-
`quently excluded from the study, fourteen
`because they never used the method, twelve
`because they used it as an adjunct to other
`methods and two because they were impos-
`sible to trace either by telephone orletter.
`The
`remaining 237 women
`have
`
`been
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`Fig 1 Packaging af C-Film
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