Factors associated with general practitioners' routines and comfortability with assessing female genital cutting: a cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Female genital cutting (FGC) may cause a series of health problems that require specialized healthcare. General practitioners (GPs) are gatekeepers to specialized healthcare services in Norway. To refer girls and women subjected to FGC to appropriate services, GPs need to assess whether the health problems reported by these patients are related to FGC. However, we do not know to what degree GPs assess FGC as a potential cause of the patients' health problems. We also know little about the GPs' patterns of training and knowledge of FGC and their effect on the GPs' assessment of FGC as a potential cause of health problems.

Method

We employed a cross-sectional online survey among GPs in Norway to examine: 1) patterns of received training on FGC, self-assessed knowled

SUBMITTER: Ziyada MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9878807 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature