Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Introduction: the constant study of the factor’s incident to the increase in cervical cancer resizes its importance as a promotion and prevention tool in health areas to face the process of increase in this cancer.Objective: determine the risk factors for cervical cancer in patients diagnosed with cervical cancer in the Pinar del Río, municipality in the Cuban province of the same name.Methods: observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study, with a universe made up of the 172 patients diagnosed with this disease in the Pinar del Río municipality during the years 2021 and 2022 and a simple random sample of 170 patients who met the inclusion criteria. Theoretical, empirical and statistical methods were used and the ethical standards established for this type of research were taken into account.Results: women between 25 and 29 years of age predominated (35,4 %), the most frequent lesion was CIN I in 98 patients (56,9 %) with a higher incidence in the group of 25 and 29 years 40 (23,3 %). The intrinsic risk factor with the highest incidence was immunological susceptibility in 109 patients (63,3 %) and the extrinsic risk factor was smoking in 98 patients (56,9 %); 65,6 % of the sample had a high risk related to cervical cancer.Conclusions: The risk factors for cervical cancer constitute a health problem in the Pinar del Río population, so health actions need to be developed that contribute to modifying them.
Institution: Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7217425898