Peak Day Plus Study

Interested in learning more about your fertility cycle?

If you are a woman between the ages of 18 and 44 who routinely consumes caffeine and isn't using birth control, you may be eligible to participate in a research study to validate a caffeine survey.

There are no blood draws or clinic visits. Compensation will be provided.

Call (801)587-3316 or email peakday@utah.edu or search for "Peak Day" on Facebook to sign up or learn more.

Happy Birthday!

Our first Peak Day baby is turning one!

Congratulations

Congratulations to Jessica, who sent us this photo at 15 weeks pregnancy (and expressed that we could post it to our blog). When asked what she liked most about participating in the Peak Day study, she wrote "I think it really helped me to achieve pregnancy. Also, I just found it really interesting to know so much about my body." We wish her good luck on a continued healthy pregnancy!

May 2010

Greetings PEAK Day women!

We recently presented about the study at the Utah Public Health Association Conference in Midway. There were many interested potential participants and others who planned to pass the information along to friends.

Recruitment is still open for both phases of the study - charting alone is available for anyone in the USA, and the optional fertility monitor phase is available for women in Salt Lake City.

Do you know anyone trying to get pregnant? Send her our way! You can email us (peakday@utah.edu), call us (801) 587-3316, or find us on Facebook!

Study materials are also available in Spanish.

Peak Day Study in the News

Baby Your Baby segment on a local news affiliate, April 9, 2010. Check it out!

Peak Day Study Update

Since recruitment began, 46 women have enrolled in the Peak Day study. Of those, 97% have correctly estimated their EDO at least once with the average number of cycles before identifying their EDO being 1.23 (range 1-2). The majority of women (65.4%) solely used cervical fluid observations to identify their EDO and 100% of the participants, who charted, consistently answered the 1-page monthly exposure questionnaire located on the back of their charts. Of the 25 women who enrolled seeking to become pregnant, nearly half of them (n=12)have become pregnant using the Peak Day method of monitoring their cervical fluid.

Recently, all study materials have been translated into Spanish so that we can include women for whom Spanish is their primary language. Additionally, in order to validate the Peak Day method, we are distributing fertility monitors that test urine hormone levels to newly enrolled participants.

We hope to enroll 120 women in this pilot study, including 20 for whom Spanish is their primary language. If you know of any woman between the ages of 18-44 who is not using hormonal contraception and is not currently pregnant or breastfeeding please refer them to our study. For further information, visit our website or facebook fan page.