Impact of Women Circumcision on Mental Health

Mohammad-Hossein Biglu; Alireza Farnam; Parvaneh Abotalebi

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Impact of Women Circumcision on Mental Health

Mohammad-Hossein Biglu, Alireza Farnam, Parvaneh Abotalebi

Published in International Journal of Psychological and Brain Sciences (Volume 2, Issue 4)

Received: 14 May 2017 Accepted: 24 May 2017 Published: 10 July 2017

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Abstract

Female genital mutilation / cutting is a damaging traditional procedure, that affects the psychosomatic wellbeing of women and girls all over the world. It has short-term and long-term of psychological, sexual and physiological effects on women. The objective of current study was to measure the mental health of circumcised women and compare them with non-circumcised women in Kurdistan province of Iran. A total number of 208 married women (104 circumcised-women and 104 non-circumcised-women) those who referred to the healthcare centers for vaccination, midwifery, or family planning services in Kurdistan province of Iran, were selected as the population of study. General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) was administered among the participants for data gathering. Gathered Data was analyzed using the soft-ware package of SPSS version 23 by utilizing independent t-test. P-value of less than 0.05 was considered as statistically significant. The findings indicated that there was a major difference in the term of mental well-being between two groups of circumcised and non-circumcised women. The study concluded that circumcised women lose the pleasure of their life as a consequence of female genital mutilation/ cutting. Awareness about mental and psychical status of circumcised women could help them to be prevented from FGM/C procedures.

Published in	International Journal of Psychological and Brain Sciences (Volume 2, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijpbs.20170204.13
Page(s)	100-105
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Keywords

Genital Mutilation, Genital Cutting, Mental Health, Psychological Consequence, Women

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Mohammad-Hossein Biglu

Department of Clinical Psychology, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
Alireza Farnam

Department of Clinical Psychology, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
Parvaneh Abotalebi

Tabriz Health Services Management Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

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