A survey on social-cultural factors related to Female Genital Mutilation: A case study of women aged 15-49 in Qeshm Island (2013)
This study is a Descriptive research regarding All FGM/C with the following characteristics:
Author(s): Rayehe Mozafarian
FGM/C Type(s): All
Health area of focus: None.
Objective: To examine the social-cultural factors related to Female Genital Mutilation.
Study Population: The locals
Findings: The test of hypothesizes indicated that there were significant relation between Female Genital Mutilation and the following independent variables: job,education,experience of Female Genital Mutilation in the family,the use of using media by women,sexual control of women,attitude of women,age of the women and marriage. Besides that,results indicated that there were no significant relations between dependent variable and the following independent variables: other way of doing violence in the family,accentuated to family,number of children and gender of children
Geographical coverage
Region(s):Southern Asia
Country(ies):Iran