Table 1 Health Care Providers Attitudes - Items

1

FGM/C is a violation of human rights

2

Communities that practice FGM/C are oppressive towards women.

3

Health Care Providers who perform any form of FGM/C, including symbolic nicking, should be charged with a crime.

4

Parents who have their daughter circumcised are abusing them.

5

Women who have undergone FGM/C are victims of an oppressive cultural practice.

6

Symbolic nicking or cutting of the female genitalia is an effective way to reduce the harm of FGM/C compared to more extensive procedures.

7

Communities that practice FGM/C are honoring an important cultural tradition.

8

Adult women have the right to undergo FGM/C.

9

Parents who have their daughter circumcised are protecting her future marriage prospects.

10

Women who have undergone FGM/C are empowered agents.

11

Parents have the right to have their daughters circumcised (undergo FGM/C).

12

Health care providers should perform reinfibulation (re-closing of the vulvar scar following childbirth) if the woman requests it.