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Have we made progress in Somalia after 30 years of interventions? Attitudes toward female circumcision among people in the Hargeisa district

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, March 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Title
Have we made progress in Somalia after 30 years of interventions? Attitudes toward female circumcision among people in the Hargeisa district
Published in
BMC Research Notes, March 2013
DOI 10.1186/1756-0500-6-122
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Authors

Abdi A Gele, Bente P Bø, Johanne Sundby

Abstract

Female circumcision is a major public health problem that largely contributes to the ill-health of women and their children globally. Accordingly, the international community is committed to take all possible measures to abolish the practice that is internationally considered to be absolutely intolerable. While the practice is a social tradition shared by people in 28 African countries, there is no country on earth where FC is more prevalent than in Somalia. Yet, since the early 1990s, there is no quantitative study that has investigated whether the perception towards the practice among Somali men and women in Somalia has improved or not. Thus, this cross-sectional quantitative study examines the attitudes toward the practice among people in Hargeisa, Somalia.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 94 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 17 18%
Student > Master 15 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 10%
Researcher 7 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 6%
Other 17 18%
Unknown 23 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 27 29%
Social Sciences 14 15%
Psychology 8 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 3%
Other 9 10%
Unknown 28 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 June 2023.
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#2,468,632
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#318
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#20,598
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#6
of 59 outputs
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