Smith Audrey D, Smith John L
Linacre Q. 2014 Aug;81(3):219-38. doi: 10.1179/2050854914Y.0000000024.
BillingsMentor is an automated Web-based service for the Billings Method of natural family planning in which the guidance and interpretation previously communicated from teacher to student is provided by programmed algorithms. There are two functions: (1) to instruct the client to generate proper descriptions of her fertility symptoms; and (2) to interpret the symptoms efficiently according to the Billings Method and to communicate the results to the client. The efficiency of billingsMentor was tested by using the historical records of students who were under the guidance of a teacher to emulate their experience under the guidance of billingsMentor. The results indicate that billingsMentor performs as well as the teacher/student in recognizing the peak of fertility but it is slightly less efficient than the teacher/student in establishing the basic infertile pattern. Advantages that arise from adapting natural family planning to information technology are discussed.
比林斯生育法指导系统是一种基于网络的自动化服务，用于自然计划生育的比林斯方法，其中以前由教师向学生传达的指导和解释由编程算法提供。它有两个功能：（1）指导客户生成对其生育症状的恰当描述；（2）根据比林斯方法有效解释症状并将结果传达给客户。通过使用在教师指导下的学生的历史记录来模拟他们在比林斯生育法指导系统指导下的经历，对比林斯生育法指导系统的效率进行了测试。结果表明，在识别生育高峰方面，比林斯生育法指导系统与教师/学生的表现相当，但在确定基本不育模式方面，其效率略低于教师/学生。文中还讨论了将自然计划生育与信息技术相结合所带来的优势。
