Keywords
FGM; Quality of life
Abstract
Objectives:
To answer the question, is female genital mutilation has effect on different domains of female QoL (psychological, social, environmental and physiological)?
Patients and methods:
The study included 40 men mutilated females and 160 mutilated females. Our candidates were subjected to two questionnaires: 1-WHO QoL BREF questionnaire. All questions were answered by choosing one of five answers then the answer has a score range from one to five. 2- Sexual quality of life questionnaire. Each female was asked 18 questions about their sexual life. All questions were answered by choosing one of ix answers. Finally, comparing total score with QoL BREF questionnaire.
Results:
Generally, FGM has inverse proportion relationship with QoL. There were significantly different results between type I & type II only in the social domain and in the total score of sexual QoL questionnaire as P values were 0.019, 0.001 respectively. The higher scores were for type I. Also there were significantly different results between Health-Related QoL (HRQOL) and sexual QoL in total score and in two domains (physical and social) a P value for them was 0.053, 0.056 and < 0.001 respectively.
Conclusion:
FGM habit should not be routinely done, and the people should be helped to change these cultural multitudes toward this habit.
Citation
Sena HFAA, El Shahed ARM and Moahmmad SHAR. Effect of Female Genital Mutilation on Female Quality of Life. SM J Gynecol Obstet. 2017; 3(1): 1018.