Baseline data from a planned RCT on attitudes to female genital cutting after migration: when are interventions justified?

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To present the primary outcomes from a baseline study on attitudes towards female genital cutting (FGC) after migration.

Design

Baseline data from a planned cluster randomised, controlled trial. Face-to-face interviews were used to collect questionnaire data in 2015. Based on our hypothesis that established Somalis could be used as facilitators of change among those newly arrived, data were stratified into years of residency in Sweden.

Setting

Sweden.

Participants

372 Somali men and women, 206 newly arrived (0-4 years), 166 established (>4 years).

Primary outcome measures

Whether FGC is acceptable, preferred for daughter and should continue, specified on anatomical extent.

Results

The support for anatomical change of girls and women's g

SUBMITTER: Wahlberg A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5724060 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature