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Swedish health care providers' experience and knowledge of female genital cutting

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Country: Sweden
Section:
Female Genital Mutilation
Topics:
Health, Violence
Types of GBV:
Female Genital Mutilation
Start date:
2006
Publication date:
01 January 2006
The information was last updated in 2013 and may not accurately represent the present situation. It makes a reference to the United Kingdom as a member of the European Union and was published before the UK's withdrawal from the European Union on the 31 January 2020. 

Questionnaire to professionals in the health care sector

Data Collection

Author(s)

Tamaddon et al.

Year of data collection

2003

Study population

Health care professionals (gynaecologists, midwives, paediatricians, school nurses school physicians)

Prevalence data on FGM

60% of the 458 respondents had encountered patients with FGM. 7 health care providers (NB: not percent, 7/458) had met a patient who they thought might have been through a FGM procedure recently.

Limitations of study

The study reports two major limitations: 1) low response rate (only 769 out of 2,707 questionnaires were returned). 2) Those who reported that they had seen a patient with a possibly newly performed FGM were not asked about the date. It is thus not possible to say if these 7 cases were from recent years or took place at, say, the beginning of the 1990s with many newly-arrived immigrants. We also do not know whether several respondents report the same case(s).

Source

Academic databases

Metadata

Type:
Database
Language:
English
Types of GBV:
Female Genital Mutilation
Keywords:
female genital mutilation
gender-based violence
data collection