Female Genital Cutting in Guinea: Qualitative and Quantitative Research Strategies (2001)
This study is a Correlation research regarding All FGM/C with the following characteristics:
Author(s): P. Stanley Yoder Mary Mahy
FGM/C Type(s): All
Health area of focus: None.
Objective: Focused on the prevalence of the practice,the types of FGC practiced,the possible medical consequences,and ways to discourage the practice. This report has a different
focus: it uses two research approaches to examine FGC in a the context of a single country. The authors wanted to determine what could be learned about FGC by comparing results obtained with two different methods of data collection. Examined the results of two contrasting research approaches—the formative study
and the national sample survey—to gain a better understand of how female genital cutting is practiced in
Guinea and how it may have changed over the past few decades
Study Population: women
Findings: The results of both studies indicate that FGC is nearly universal in Guinea. The DHS survey showed that nearly all girls (99 percent) go through female,The findings of both approaches regarding the prevalence of FGC indicate that the practice is almost universal in Guinea. The formative study found that among the Sosso,Fulani,and Maninka,all girls are expected to be circumcised and that among the Guerze of Forest Guinea,some Christian groups oppose FGC. According to the survey findings,Christians in Forest Guinea are the only identifiable group with a prevalence of FGC below the norm.
Geographical coverage
Region(s):Western Africa
Country(ies):Guinea