title: Female genital mutilation and transcultural nursing: adaptation of the Rising Sun Model.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a widespread practice mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa and is considered an affront on the dignity and health of women and young girls.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To establish a theoretical model, inspired by that of Madeleine Leininger, in order to examine the reasonings used to justify FGM.
  
  
  METHODS
  Theorization through bibliographic review. Resuts and conclusions: The factors used to justify this act are diverse and convert the tradition into a form of cultural care. From this viewpoint, nurses might evaluate the supposed justifications via the Rising Sun Model in order to redirect such a practice through nursing interventions such as: research into propagating factors, sensitizing through hindering factors or health education, highlighting the contradictions existent in the justification of FGM.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Nursing , University of Alicante , Alicante , Spain.
authors.forename: Ismael
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jiménez-Ruiz
authors.affiliation: b Faculty of Nursing , University of Murcia , Murcia , Spain.
authors.forename: Pilar
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Almansa Martínez
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017954:Africa South of the Sahara; D019093:Circumcision, Female / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D016387:Women's Health / Q000592:standards*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: female circumcision; transcultural nursing; women’s health