Background: This study is aimed to determine Female Genital Mutilation and its associated factors among reproductive women in Sudan.

Methods: The study adopted the survey logistic model to investigate the association between female genital mutilation and the predictors variables. The data was obtained from the multiple indicators cluster survey 2014 of Sudan.

Results: The study revealed that the prevalence of female genital mutilation was 89.7%, all Sudanese states practiced circumcision in both rural and urban areas. Also, the results showed that there were significant association between place of residence, state, age group, education level, and wealth index and FGM, whereas marital status and daughter circumcision were insignificant associated with FGM.

Conclusion: The study concluded that female circumcision was found in Sudan in all the regions, but in rural areas was greater than that in urban areas. The prevalence of FGM was high in Sudan compared with other countries. The findings showed that there was a significant association between place of residence, state, age group, education level, and wealth index and FGM.

survey logistic regression, female, genital mutilation determinants.

Received: September 21, 2021; Accepted: October 30, 2021; Published: November 30, 2021

How to cite this article: Ahmed Saied Rahama Abdallah and Mohammed Omar Musa Mohammed, Determinants of female genital mutilation among reproductive women in Sudan: application of survey logistic regression, Advances in Probability, Stochastic Processes and Applied Statistics 1 (2022), 1-12. DOI: 10.17654/PAS2022001

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