A brief interactive training for health care professionals working with people affected by “female genital mutilation”: initial pilot evaluation with psychosexual therapists

The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs A brief interactive training for health care professionals working with people affected by " female genital mutilation " : initial pilot evaluation with psychosexual therapists Journal Article (2016). A brief interactive training for health care professionals working with people affected by " female genital mutilation " : initial pilot evaluation with psychosexual therapists. Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Abstract The aim of the study was to evaluate a 90-minute professional training and education workshop on working with women affected by 'female genital mutilation' (FGM). Forty-nine psychosexual therapists attended the workshop and completed the same questionnaire eliciting FGM knowledge and attitudes at the beginning and end of the workshop. Pre and post differences in responses to the questionnaire were taken to be the effect of the workshop intervention. Participant satisfaction was independently obtained by the conference organisers.