Decline of supportive attitudes among husbands toward female genital mutilation and its association to those practices in Yemen (2013)
This study is a Descriptive research regarding All FGM/C with the following characteristics:
Author(s): Ghadah Abdulmajid Al-Khulaidi, Keiko Nakamura,Kaoruko Seino,Masashi Kizuki
FGM/C Type(s): All
Health area of focus: None.
Objective: To elucidate the attitudes of women and their husband’s towards female genital mutilation (FGM) and
their associations with the continuation of FGM upon their daughters.
Study Population: Ever married women (Got data from Yemen Demographic Health Surveys. {10,345 (in 1997) and 11,252 (in 2003)} )
Findings: The percentage among the most-recently-born daughters who received FGM of women who had undergone FGM declined from 61.9% in 1997 to 56.5% in 2003 (p<0.001). The percentages of women who had undergone FGM and who supported the continuation of FGM and of husbands who also supported its continuation decreased from 78.2% and 60.1% in 1997 to 70.9% and 49.5% in 2003,respectively (both p<0.001). When the women or the husbands did not agree with FGM,it was less likely to be performed on their daughter than when the women or the husbands agreed in 1997 (odds ratio=0.11,95% confidence interval 0.07-0.16 and odds ratio=0.07,95% confidence interval 0.04-0.12,respectively) and in 2003 (odds ratio=0.12,95% confidence interval 0.09-0.16 and odds ratio=0.11,95% confidence interval 0.07-0.16,respectively).
Geographical coverage
Region(s):Western Asia
Country(ies):Yemen