Your participation will contribute to research that can help improve FGM prevention and health provisions across the U.S.

Survey: Impact of migration on female genital mutilation in the United States

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Participant information

You are being invited to take part in a research project. Before you decide whether or not to take part, it is important for you to understand why the research is being done and what it will involve. Please take time to read the following information carefully.

Impact of migration on female circumcision in the United States

The information collected as part of this study may be used, in part or in whole, for the writing of a PhD, however, at no time would any personally identifiable data be collected or published.

What is the purpose of the research project?

This research study seeks to assess the ongoing risk to and support service requirements of those impacted by female circumcision in the United States. The study is being conducted in a few phases with, the survey phase available online for several months in 2023.

Why have I been invited to participate?

This survey seeks the views of women who are over the age of 18, who live in the United States, and who have ancestral links to a specific group of countries where female circumcision is known to take place. Those countries include Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Kenya, Kuwait, Liberia, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, UAE, Yemen, and Zambia.

Why should I take part?

Taking part in this research study could potentially benefit others by providing more robust research of the ongoing risk to, and support service requirements of those impacted by female circumcision in the United States.

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