Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): An analysis of the silences in maternity care experiences of FGM survivors and the silences of health care professionals providing maternity care to FGM survivors (2019)
This study is a Descriptive research regarding All FGM/C with the following characteristics:
Author(s): Danks,E.
FGM/C Type(s): All
Health area of focus: Obstetrics.
Objective: There were three main aims to this study; (i) to understand the maternity experiences of FGM survivors throughout their contact with maternity services,(ii) to explore how the knowledge and experiences of health care professionals can impact on the care that the women received and (iii) to understand how the terminology and language used by the health care professionals can affect the care experiences of FGM survivors. Hence there were three key questions of this researc
Study Population: FGM survivors who were engaged in
maternity care and health care professionals who provided maternity care to FGM
survivors
Findings: The findings from the analysis suggest that health care professionalsā education and training lacks the cultural context of FGM which seems to have an impact on the provision of maternity services for FGM survivors. This finding led to the conception of a novel model of cultural silence around FGM which can be used to determine
cultural dissonance in health care setting
Emma Danks 3
Although risk assessments appeared to be dominant in the discourse of maternity
care,this discourse appears to constrain health care professionals in maternity
services from providing culturally responsive care. This appeared to lead to a silence
of cultural sensitivity when providing care to FGM survivors
Geographical coverage
Region(s):Northern Europe
Country(ies):United Kingdom