Female Genital Mutilation and Birth Complications,Jijiga Town,Eastern Ethiopia (2002)
This study is a Correlation research regarding All FGM/C with the following characteristics:
Author(s): Tewodros Gebremichael
FGM/C Type(s): All
Health area of focus: Obstretric.
Objective: Assessed and compared the differential occurrence of birth complications among the different types of female genital mutilation(s)
Study Population: women of reproductive age.
Findings: The proportion of women who were genitally mutilated was 96% with 52% of them undergone the most severe type of FGM – infibulation. The rest 48% of women had undergone either FGM Type I or Type II; i.e.,they were genitally mutilated but not infibulated. Episiotomies occurred among 61% of women who were delivering for the first time and 28.1% of women delivering for the second time. The rates of instrumental and cesarean deliveries among the first-time deliveries were 6.6% and 3.1%,respectively; while they were 3.2% and 1.3% among the second-time deliveries,respectively. Among primi-parous women 36.2% reported having had complicated postnatal period; 22.5%,prolonged labour; 10.3%,perineal tear and 9.8%,heavy bleeding. Internal comparison between infibulated and non-infibulated women had shown that there was a significant difference in the occurrence of hemorrhage and postnatal problems.
Geographical coverage
Region(s):Eastern Africa
Country(ies):Ethiopia