Clinico-epidemiological factors of pelvic inflammatory disease

Introduction: Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is the most frequent serious infection in women between 16 and 25 years old. Early ages are the period of highest risk of occurrence due to the higher incidence of risk factors related to unsafe sexual behaviors. Methodological Design: An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional research was carried out with the objective of reducing the incidence of PID risk factors in young patients diagnosed in Gynecology consultations of Primary Health Care, belonging to the Pedro Borras Astorga Polyclinic, in the period from January 2022 to March 2024. The universe consisted of 3655 women between 16 and 25 years of age from the aforementioned health area and a sample of 63 patients who met the inclusion criteria was used. Statistical method: Excel, Windows version 11 for automated processing and analysis, summary measures for qualitative variables: absolute frequencies and percentages. Results: It was found that most of the adolescents had unprotected sexual relations, began sexual relations before the age of 14, reported a history of induced abortions, 100 % requested attention for pelvic pain and in all of them the clinical response to the indicated medical treatment was evaluated, based on the decrease in the intensity of the pelvic pain and the changes in the initial ultrasound findings. The most effective combination was triple antibiotic therapy.