ASSESSMENT OF SELECTED SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION AMONG RESIDENTS OF GOMBE STATE, NIGERIA.

Abdulllahi Mohammed Isyaku, Saidu Isah, Bala Yunusa Tilde, Helen Sindama

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This Paper critically analysed the influence of Socio-economic factors on the Knowledge of health consequences of female genital mutilation (FGM) among residents in Gombe State. The Socio-economic factors studied were ethnic background, residential location and educational status. One research question was asked and three hypotheses were postulated. Cross-sectional household survey was used and multi-stage sampling procedure was employed to select 384 respondents. Researcher-developed questionnaire made up of 15 items was used to collect information on the Knowledge of health consequences of female genital mutilation for the study. Descriptive statistic of frequency count and percentage were used to organise the demographic information of the respondents while t-test was used to analyse hypothesis 1 and 2 and hypothesis 3 was analysed using one-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) of inferential statistics using statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 16.0 at alpha level 0.05. The finding revealed that Socio-economic factors have no significance influence on the knowledge of health consequences of female genital mutilation (FGM) among residents in Gombe State. It was recommended among others that health education and sensitization campaigns should be maintained to keep the general public conscious alive on the health consequences involved in FGM and motivate them to shun the practice, because knowledge alone is not sufficient to quit the practice but motivation and guidance would be helpful.  


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