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A survey on knowledge of female genital mutilation guidelines
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The increase in immigration from countries with a high prevalence of female genital mutilation (FGM) has highlighted the need for knowledge and sensitivity in this area of healthcare in high‐resource countries. We have surveyed with an online questionnaire 607 members, fellows and trainees of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) on knowledge about the RCOG guidelines for FGM. Completed training and more practical experience with women affected by FGM significantly increased knowledge. Many respondents were not aware of specialist services locally (22.9%) or how to access them (52.3%). Some areas of insufficient knowledge were identified, in particular in relation to psychiatric morbidity, HIV, hepatitis B and pelvic infection. More specialized training efforts might improve this aspect.
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While medicalized FGM/C is found in greatest concentration in Egypt, Sudan, and Nigeria, health professionals in countries around the world have been approached with requests to cut girls and women.
“While medicalized FGM/C is found in greatest concentration in three countries (Egypt, Sudan, and Nigeria), health professionals in countries around the world have been approached with requests to cut girls and women [ 49 – 53 ].”
From Medicalized Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Contentious Practices and Persistent Debates (2018) · cites this paper as [51]
The Introduction and Discussion address FGM as a healthcare issue in the UK and Europe, but do not report that health professionals around the world were asked to perform it. Our copy also does not identify Egypt, Sudan, and Nigeria as the countries with the greatest concentration of medicalized FGM/C. Searches for requests to cut girls or women and for those three countries found no supporting passage. (LLM, conf=0.72)
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Metadata
- Authors
- Purchase, T. C. D., Lamoudi, M., Colman, S., Allen, S., Latthe, P., & Jolly, K.
- Affiliations
- University of Birmingham (GB)
- Birmingham Women's Hospital (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Jolly, Kate
- Venue
- Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-05-10
- Volume
- 92
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 858-861
- ISSN
- 0001-6349 (ISSN-L)
- 1600-0412
- OpenAlex
- W1993886003
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 2.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (submittedVersion)
- University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Urology › Ureteral procedures and complications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Global Health and Surgery
- Keywords
- female genital mutilation, clinical guidelines, guideline knowledge, obstetricians and gynecologists, expert services, access to services, psychiatric morbidity, HIV, hepatitis B, pelvic infection, immigrant women, professional training
- MeSH terms
- Clinical Competence, Female, United Kingdom, Gynecology, Humans, Obstetrics, Physicians, Surveys and Questionnaires, Referral and Consultation, Linear Models, Practice Guidelines as Topic, Circumcision, Female, Health Care Surveys
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