Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Prepucectomy among Medical Personnel in Omdurman Locality Obstetric and Gynecological Hospitals 2019

Abstract

Saja Salah Mohamed Almahdi, Asma Abdelaal Abdalla Osman

Background: Female circumcision remains an endless public health problem in many societies and cultural groups, transcends religion, despite the concerted efforts and laws forbidding the practice. The study, aimed to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practice of prepucectomy among medical personnel.

Method: In this three obstetric and gynecological hospitals cross-sectional study, 190 medical personnel interviewed using a questionnaire containing and quantitative aspects after taking written consent. Data has been analyzed using SPSS software version 20. Uni-variate, bi-variety and multi-variety was conducted out and p-value at or  <0.05 was taken as significant.

Results: The Overall, (82%) women and (17.2%) men were included. The mean age was 35 years (SD=11.5). A total of (33%) midwife, (56.2%) registrar (10.5%) obstetrician. Those who had inadequate knowledge of prepucectomy constitute (65.7%). Regarding attitude, out of 190 medical personnel (62.7%) had negative attitude toward prepucectomy. Out of 190 of participants (95%) had poor practice. There were highly significant association between practice and knowledge level (0.001), practice and attitude (0.0001), also between attitude and knowledge (0.368). Finally, there were significant correlation between practice and gender (1.957), practice and job in hospital (0.0001).

Conclusion: The researcher request from obstetric and gynecological society to conduct more research about prepucectomy(Case control, cohort study).

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