Understanding the motivations of health-care providers in performing female genital mutilation: an integrative review of the literature.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a traditional harmful practice that can cause severe physical and psychological damages to girls and women. Increasingly, trained health-care providers carry out the practice at the request of families. It is important to understand the motivations of providers in order to reduce the medicalization of FGM. This integrative review identifies, appraises and summarizes qualitative and quantitative literature exploring the factors that are associated with the medicalization of FGM and/or re-infibulation.

Methods

Literature searches were conducted in PubMed, CINAHL and grey literature databases. Hand searches of identified studies were also examined. The "CASP Qualitative Research Checklist" and the "STROBE Statement" were used to ass

SUBMITTER: Doucet MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5364567 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature