In a message dated 08/20/2002 6:31:27 PM Central Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:


> If you have a big enough sample you can demonstrate that. The question
> is how to do it ethically. You can't take 1000 women and randomly divide
> them into two groups, those who get depo immediately and those who
> get it after 6 weeks. That would never pass an IRB and rightly so.
>

Sorta like trying to devise a randomized prospective control study r/t
breastfeeding -- you will & you won't.  Not ethical.

No way, no how.

Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC -- Wheaton IL
Lactation Education Consultants
www.lactationeducationconsultants.com

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