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    Traditional practices of female genital mutilation as determinants of married female teachers emotional health in osun state secondary schools, Osun state.
    (Department of Kinesiology, Health Education and Recreation, Faculty of Education, Obafemi Awolowo, University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria., 2024) Ann, Olayemi Aruna.
    This study investigated the prevalence of female genital mutilation among married female teachers in public secondary schools in Osun State; examined the perceptions of the married female teachers towards Female Genital Mutilation, determined the level of emotional health of the married female teachers and investigated the relationship between Female Genital Mutilation and emotional health of married female teachers in public secondary schools in the study area. These were with a view to providing information on the traditional practices of Female Genital Mutilation as determinants of the emotional health of married female teachers in Osun State. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. The population for the study comprised all married female teachers in public secondary schools in Osun State. Sample size consisted of 360 married female teachers. The multi-stage sampling procedure was adopted for the study. Four Local Government Areas (LGA) were selected from the three senatorial districts using convenience sampling technique. From each LGA, five schools (making 20) were selected using convenience sampling technique. From each school, 18 respondents were selected using simple sampling technique. A self-designed questionnaire titled Female Genital Mutilation on Emotional Health-Questionnaire (FGM-EH-Q) was used to elicit information from the respondents. Data collected was analysed using frequency, percentage and bar chart representative, mean and standard deviation scores. Results indicated that there was a high prevalence of the traditional practice of Female Genital Mutilation, majority 328 (91.1%) of the married female teachers in the study area had undergone the traditional practice of female genital mutilation. The study also found out that the rate of clitoridectomy done was high 153 (46.6%), infibulation 71 (21.7%), excision 59 (18.0%) while low in other harmful procedures to the female genitals, including piercing, burning, tattooing or applying corrosive substances to the female external genitalia 45 (13.7%). Result further showed that 289 (88.1%) of the respondents who had undergone the traditional practice of Female Genital Mutilation had a low emotional health, 26 (7.9%) had a moderate emotional health, while 13(4.0%) had a high emotional health status. Finally, result revealed that there was a significant relationship between female genital mutilation and emotional health of married female teachers (β=106.842, t = 142.398. p<0.05) in public secondary schools in Osun State, Nigeria. The study concluded that the traditional practices of Female Genital Mutilation contributed to the low level of emotional health of married female teachers in public secondary schools in Osun State, Nigeria