Clitoral reconstruction and psychosexual care after female genital mutilation/cutting: Assessment of multidisciplinary care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Multidisciplinary care following female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) can consist of surgical interventions such as clitoral reconstruction (CR) in combination with individualized psychosexual care (PC). Evidence on both treatments, alone or in association, is limited.

Objectives

To investigate the overall satisfaction with PC only or PC in combination with CR.

Design

Cross-sectional study of women who attended the FGM/C outpatient clinic under study and asked for CR between January 2013 and November 2021.

Methods

Data were collected through questionnaire-based interviews on motivations for asking for CR, psychological well-being (World Health Organization-Five Well-Being Index), sexual response (Female Sexual Function Index), vulvar pain, genit

SUBMITTER: Meyer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11960189 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature