Australian midwives' perspectives on managing obstetric care of women living with female genital circumcision/mutilation. Issue 10 (2nd October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ogunsiji, Olayide
• Is Part Of: Health care for women international. Volume 37:Issue 10(2016)
• Page Start: 1156
• Page End: 1169
• Publication Date: 2016-10-02
• Subjects: Women -- Health and hygiene -- Periodicals; Women's health services -- Periodicals; Genital Diseases, Female; Neonatology; Obstetrics; Women -- psychology; Femmes -- Santé et hygiène -- Périodiques; Femmes -- Santé, Services de -- Périodiques; 613.0424405
• DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2016.1215462
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0739-9332

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision is a global health issue with increasing international migration of affected women and girls to countries unfamiliar with the practice. Western health care providers are unfamiliar with FGM, and managing obstetric care presents challenges to midwives who are in the forefront of care provision for the women. The participants in this Heideggerian qualitative interpretive study elucidated the strategies they used in overcoming the particular physical, emotional, and gynecological health issues with which mutilated women present. Ongoing emphases on women-centered, culturally competent maternity care are germane to optimal maternity care of circumcised women.