Interventions to reduce the prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting in African countries

摘要: This systematic review aimed to answer the following research questions:1. What is effectiveness of interventions designed reduce prevalence female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) compared no or other active intervention?2. How do factors related continuance and discontinuance FGM/C help explain FGM/C? The authors used an integrative evidence approach, whereby analyses data context were completed in separate streams, but where they, final step, integrated results from two sets a realist synthesis approach. They included eight studies (research question 1). All employed controlled before-and-after study design. The quality assessment resulted decision weak for all studies, which involved 7,042 participants residing seven different African countries: Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia/Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal. they could perform four meta-analyses there was doubt about validity results. showed that limited, although pointed potential advantageous developments, such as positive changes attitudes knowledge regarding FGM/C, result abandonment interventions.