The prevalence of common infective agents and associated factors of vaginal infections among sexually active childbearing age females in Phuoc Hiep Community, Cu Chi District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Abstract

This study was done with a prime interest in these three common infections (i.e., bacterial vaginosis, candidiasis, and tricho-moniasis) is the inception population. It is a crossectional des-criptive study. The purposes of this research are two-fold: namely, to find out the prevalence of common infective agents of vaginal infections with an interest in the three common infections (i.e., bacterial vaginosis, candidiasis, and trichomoniasis), and to explore the associated factors of vaginal infections among sexually active childbearing age females in Phuoc Hiep. A total of 226 subjects were included in the study. There were 89 subjects had vaginal infection (39.4%). The prevalence of Candidiasis, Trichomoniasis, Bacterial vaginosis in community were 27.0% (61 subjects), 2.7% (6 subjects), 23.5% (53 subjects), respectively. Differences in behaviours, sexual behaviours between infected and noninfected group is a possible explanation. In all statistical analyses, differences were considered significant when p-value <0.05. the data from this study indicates factors significantly associated with vaginal infection due to bacteria is anal intercourse, and for Candidiasis is moisture at the perineum.