Cargando…

Experiences of Primary Healthcare Workers in Australia towards Women and Girls Living with Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C): A Qualitative Study

Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a harmful cultural practice with significant health consequences for affected women and girls. Due to migration and human mobility, an increasing number of women with FGM/C are presenting to healthcare facilities of western countries (including Australia)...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Ogunsiji, Olayide, Ogbeide, Anita Eseosa, Ussher, Jane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10001128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36900707
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11050702
_version_ 1784904057636257792
author Ogunsiji, Olayide
Ogbeide, Anita Eseosa
Ussher, Jane
author_facet Ogunsiji, Olayide
Ogbeide, Anita Eseosa
Ussher, Jane
author_sort Ogunsiji, Olayide
collection PubMed
description Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a harmful cultural practice with significant health consequences for affected women and girls. Due to migration and human mobility, an increasing number of women with FGM/C are presenting to healthcare facilities of western countries (including Australia) where the practice is non-prevalent. Despite this increase in presentation, the experiences of primary healthcare providers in Australia engaging and caring for women/girls with FGM/C are yet to be explored. The aim of this research was to report on the Australian primary healthcare providers’ experiences of caring for women living with FGM/C. A qualitative interpretative phenomenological approach was utilised and convenience sampling was used to recruit 19 participants. Australian primary healthcare providers were engaged in face-to-face or telephone interviews, which were transcribed verbatim and thematically analysed. Three major themes emerged, which were: exploring knowledge of FGM/C and training needs, understanding participants’ experience of caring for women living with FGM/C, and mapping the best practice in working with women. The study shows that primary healthcare professionals had basic knowledge of FGM/C with little or no experience with the management, support, and care of affected women in Australia. This impacted their attitude and confidence to promote, protect, and restore the target population’s overall FGM/C-related health and wellbeing issues. Hence, this study highlights the importance of primary healthcare practitioners being skilled and well-equipped with information and knowledge to care for girls and women living with FGM/C in Australia.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-10001128
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2023
publisher MDPI
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-100011282023-03-11 Experiences of Primary Healthcare Workers in Australia towards Women and Girls Living with Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C): A Qualitative Study Ogunsiji, Olayide Ogbeide, Anita Eseosa Ussher, Jane Healthcare (Basel) Article Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a harmful cultural practice with significant health consequences for affected women and girls. Due to migration and human mobility, an increasing number of women with FGM/C are presenting to healthcare facilities of western countries (including Australia) where the practice is non-prevalent. Despite this increase in presentation, the experiences of primary healthcare providers in Australia engaging and caring for women/girls with FGM/C are yet to be explored. The aim of this research was to report on the Australian primary healthcare providers’ experiences of caring for women living with FGM/C. A qualitative interpretative phenomenological approach was utilised and convenience sampling was used to recruit 19 participants. Australian primary healthcare providers were engaged in face-to-face or telephone interviews, which were transcribed verbatim and thematically analysed. Three major themes emerged, which were: exploring knowledge of FGM/C and training needs, understanding participants’ experience of caring for women living with FGM/C, and mapping the best practice in working with women. The study shows that primary healthcare professionals had basic knowledge of FGM/C with little or no experience with the management, support, and care of affected women in Australia. This impacted their attitude and confidence to promote, protect, and restore the target population’s overall FGM/C-related health and wellbeing issues. Hence, this study highlights the importance of primary healthcare practitioners being skilled and well-equipped with information and knowledge to care for girls and women living with FGM/C in Australia. MDPI 2023-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10001128/ /pubmed/36900707 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11050702 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Article
Ogunsiji, Olayide
Ogbeide, Anita Eseosa
Ussher, Jane
Experiences of Primary Healthcare Workers in Australia towards Women and Girls Living with Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C): A Qualitative Study
title Experiences of Primary Healthcare Workers in Australia towards Women and Girls Living with Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C): A Qualitative Study
title_full Experiences of Primary Healthcare Workers in Australia towards Women and Girls Living with Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C): A Qualitative Study
title_fullStr Experiences of Primary Healthcare Workers in Australia towards Women and Girls Living with Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C): A Qualitative Study
title_full_unstemmed Experiences of Primary Healthcare Workers in Australia towards Women and Girls Living with Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C): A Qualitative Study
title_short Experiences of Primary Healthcare Workers in Australia towards Women and Girls Living with Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C): A Qualitative Study
title_sort experiences of primary healthcare workers in australia towards women and girls living with female genital mutilation/cutting (fgm/c): a qualitative study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10001128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36900707
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11050702
work_keys_str_mv AT ogunsijiolayide experiencesofprimaryhealthcareworkersinaustraliatowardswomenandgirlslivingwithfemalegenitalmutilationcuttingfgmcaqualitativestudy
AT ogbeideanitaeseosa experiencesofprimaryhealthcareworkersinaustraliatowardswomenandgirlslivingwithfemalegenitalmutilationcuttingfgmcaqualitativestudy
AT ussherjane experiencesofprimaryhealthcareworkersinaustraliatowardswomenandgirlslivingwithfemalegenitalmutilationcuttingfgmcaqualitativestudy