Prevalencia de infecciones cervicovaginales en las estudiantes de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Escuela Superior Politecnica de Chimborazo.

Abstract

Cervico-vaginal infections are one of the main causes that affect the university students who have started their sexual life. Our objectives were to determine the prevalence of cervico-vaginal infections in college students by cytology and knowledge they have about the Pap Smears (PS). The students were invited to participate in the study through a talk on cervical cancer and usefulness of cytology as a method of inquiry. The 55 cervical samples obtained were stained using the technique Pap and informed by the Bethesda System 2001. During the sampling data on age; sexarquia, number of sexual partners, contraception and date of the last cytology was obtained. Descriptive statistics and correlation of Yule was performed. Knowledge results show that 60% of students know the term cervical cytology, while 76% identified as PS test, 48.8% described that is performed to identify infections, 41.5% say that is done in women with sexual life active, 94% say it is a timely detection of cervical cancer. The average age of the students was 21.75 ± 2039 years, the average age was 18.35 ± sexarquia 1443 years and the average number of sexual partners was 2.25 ± 1.443. In total negative for intraepithelial lesion or malignancy were 81.8%, while 16.4% had abnormalities in epithelial cells. Bacterial infection occurred in 45.5%, fungal vulvovaginitis in 23.6% and no infection in 20%. 61.9% had leucorrhea there is a correlation between this clinic and the development of infections. In conclusion, university students better recognize the term Pap Smears and a high percentage knows its usefulness. Bacterial infections are the most prevalent. There is strong correlation between the presence of vaginal discharge and cervico-vaginal infections.