title: The comparison of marital satisfaction and mental health in genital mutilated females and non-genital mutilated females.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Female circumcision, sexual amputation, or Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is an action existing in some cultures and regions of the world. For instance, in Africa and some little communities in Middle East use this operation for many reasons. This operation is forbidden in those countries and is never linked to religious attitudes.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of the following research was to determine and compare marital satisfaction, mental health and sexual satisfaction between Kurdish genital mutilated and non-genital mutilated females.
  
  
  METHODS
  To achieve the goal of research, a sample of 200 married females of Ornament area in Kermanshah province were selected by non-randomized sampling Enrich Marital Inventory, and General Health Questionnaire was used for data gathering. Data was analyzed between the two groups by utilizing independent t- test. The significant level was P < 0.05.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The findings indicated that there was a significant difference between genital mutilated females and non-genital mutilated females. Besides, the results revealed that two groups of participants had significant difference in mental health and the other subscales like physical symptom and sleep disorder from general health.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is noteworthy to point out that there is strong relation between sexual desire and marital satisfaction and their fulfillment reflects in mental health of people. So, when women experience the FGM in their lives, in fact they lose the gratification of their whole life. Awareness of the mental and psychical dangerous results of this operation could help women and prevent doing this inhuman action to others.
authors: Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors: Anahita
authors: A
authors: Khodabakhshi Koolaee
authors: Department of Counseling, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors: Taghi
authors: T
authors: Pourebrahim
authors: Department of Counseling, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors: Bayan
authors: B
authors: Mohammadmoradi
authors: Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Alzahra University, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors: Mansor Ali
authors: MA
authors: Hameedy
keywords: Couple Satisfaction; Female; Genital Mutilation; Mental Health