Initiation rites at menarche and self-reported dysmenorrhoea among indigenous women of the Colombian Amazon: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate the association between self-reported dysmenorrhoea and patterns of female initiation rites at menarche among Amazonian indigenous peoples of Vaupés in Colombia.

Design

A cross-sectional study of all women in seven indigenous communities. Questionnaire administered in local language documented female initiation rites and experience of dysmenorrhoea. Analysis examined 10 initiation components separately, then together, comparing women who underwent all rites, some rites and no rites.

Settings

Seven indigenous communities belonging to the Tukano language group in the Great Eastern Reservation of Vaupés (Colombia) in 2008.

Participants

All women over the age of 13 years living in the seven communities in Vaupés, who had experienced at lea

SUBMITTER: Zuluaga G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3612793 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature