Table 2 Reported observations

From: Assessment of menstrual health status and evolution through mobile apps for fertility awareness

Type

Sympto

Kindara

Unit/categories

Max precision/subcategories

Unit/categories

Max precision/subcategories

BBT

Celsius

0.05

Fahrenheit

0.01

BBT time

Daytime

1/2 h

Daytime

Minute

Questionable temp

(Not recorded)

 

Logical

 

Mucus

NA

 

NA

 

No mucus

 

No mucus

 

Little amounts of creamy/egg-white like mucus or not very stretchable mucus

 

Creamy

Little/medium/lots

Large amounts of egg-white like, watery, very stretchable mucus

 

Egg-white like

Little/medium/lots

  

Watery

Little/medium/lots

Sticky mucus

 

Sticky

Little/medium/lots

Cervix

NA

 

Height

Low/medium/high

Closed, firm, low

 

Firmness

Firm/medium/soft

medium

 

Openness

Closed/medium/open

Open, soft, high

   

Vaginal sensation

NA

 

NA

 

Dry

 

Dry

 

Wet

 

Dry sticky

 

Very wet

 

Wet moist

 
  

Wet lubricate

 

Sex

Protected

 

Protected

 

Unprotected

 

Unprotected

 
  

Withdrawal

 
  

Insemination

 
  1. Tracking options available to users of the Sympto and Kindara app. Kindara offers more granularity and categories for reporting mucus, cervix and vaginal sensation. Provided that they primarily market users who wish to achieve pregnancy, they also offer the option to track insemination. Sympto considers withdrawal as unprotected sex and does not offer that option to their user