Knowledge of, Attitudes About, and Practice of Female Genital Cutting in Antenatal Patients Among Igbos in Nigeria
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background: The attitude of expectant mothers toward female genital cutting (FGC) is crucial with regard to eradicating the practice. Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of FGC among antenatal patients among the Igbos in Nigeria. Methods: This study was conducted on 600 consecutive pregnant women attending the antenatal clinic at Abia State University Teaching Hospital (Abia State, Nigeria), from May to November 2005, using structured interviewer-administered questionnaire. Results: The majority (77.5%) of respondents had heard about FGC. Clitoridectomy, excision, and infibulation were known by 63.5%, 10.8%, and 3.2% of the respondents, respectively. Of these, 67.8% and 4.5% of respondents knew that HIV/AIDS and hepatitis, respectively, could be transmitted by the methods used in FGC. Prevalence of circumcision was 60.4% and the most common type (62.7%) was clitoridectomy. Conclusions: Our study confirmed a high prevalence rate of FGC among Igbos despite adequate knowledge and negative attitudes. (J GYNECOLOGIC SURG 22:89)
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".