Table 3 Attitude, knowledge and practices towards FGM/C among participants (Numbers showing the responders number to each specific question)
Question | Answer | Number(N) | Percentage (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
Most recent Daughter Age of circumcision | During infancy (0–1 years) | 90 | 78.9 |
Childhood (2–10 years) | 20 | 17.6 | |
Adolescent (12–19 years) | 3 | 2.6 | |
Adulthood (> 20 years) | 1 | 0.9 | |
Who/Where did the most recent circumcision of your daughter? | Governmental hospital/clinic | 12 | 10.8 |
Private hospital/clinic | 84 | 73.7 | |
Ritual/traditional circumcisers | 15 | 13.5 | |
Do you plan or prefer circumcision for your future daughters? | No | 679 | 74.9 |
Yes | 227 | 25.1 | |
Plan or preferred type of circumcision for future daughtersn = 48 | Minimal (Type I) | 36 | 75.0 |
Moderate (Type II) | 4 | 8.3 | |
Major - Pharaonic (Type III) | 6 | 12.5 | |
Don’t Know | 2 | 4.2 | |
Custom/tradition-Consider female circumcision | No | 194 | 18.7 |
Yes | 712 | 68.8 | |
Religious (Fardh / Obligatory) | No | 849 | 82.0 |
Yes | 57 | 5.5 | |
Religious (Sunna / Recommended) | No | 698 | 67.4 |
Yes | 208 | 20.1 | |
Custom Religious Obligatory Religious Recommended | Custom | 653 | 63.1 |
Religious Obligatory | 29 | 2.8 | |
Religious Recommended | 159 | 15.4 | |
Custom and Religious | 65 | 6.3 | |
Are you For or Against the practice of female circumcision? | Against | 664 | 72.8 |
For | 248 | 27.2 | |
FGM performed in UAE Public hospitals clinics | Public hospitals/clinics | 72 | 7.0 |
FGM performed in UAE Private hospitals clinics | 0 | 0 | |
Private hospitals/clinics | 82 | 7.9 | |
FGM performed in UAE Ritual Elderly person | 0 | 0 | |
Ritual/Elderly person from the community | 43 | 4.2 | |
Is FGM performed in UAE | Don’t Know | 195 | 18.8 |
Governmental hospitals/clinics | 80 | 7.7 | |
Private hospitals/clinics | 192 | 18.6 | |
Ritual/traditional circumcisers | 41 | 4.0 | |
Do you know where FGM is performed COMBINED | Don’t Know | 552 | 53.3 |
Other | 7 | 0.7 | |
Governmental & Private hospitals/clinics | 29 | 2.8 | |
Governmental hospital & Ritual person | 7 | 0.7 | |
Private hospitals & Ritual person | 10 | 1.0 | |
Governmental & Private & Ritual | 2 | 0.2 | |
Do you think the practice of female circumcision is legal in the UAE? | Don’t know | 521 | 50.3 |
No | 233 | 22.5 | |
Yes | 180 | 17.4 |