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Tipo: Artigo de Periódico
Título: Assistance and educational factors associated to congenital syphilis in a referral maternity: a case-control study
Autor(es): Felipe Leonardorigo
Roberta Maia de Castro Romanelli
Iara Paiva Oliveira
Leni Márcia Anchieta
Resumen: Objectives: to investigate the information received by pregnant women considering assistance care and educational factors on syphilis and its association with the diagnostic of congenital syphilis in a referral maternity. Methods: a case-control study conducted in a referral maternity in Minas Gerais, Brazil,from 2017 to 2018. A case group included newborns’ mothers with presumptive congenital syphilis and A control group was considered healthy newborns’ mothers. Clinical, obstetrics variables and information about maternal educational approach on syphilis during prenatal care were obtained through interviews and medical records. Descriptive and comparative analyses were performed. Chi-square or Fisher's exact test and odds ratio were calculated followed by multivariate logistic regression. Results: sixty mothers were included in the case group and 120 mothers in the control group. Mothers in the case group presented lower schooling level and they were 24 times more likely to have information about the risks of congenital syphilis and five times more likely to had received previous treatment for syphilis and mothers in the control group were10 times more likely to receive information about Sexually Transmitted Infections during prenatal care. Conclusion: adequate health assistance identifying previous history of syphilis and healtheducation improving its information about Sexually Transmitted Infections can help prevent congenital syphilis, which indicates the necessity of a better approach by the professionals during prenatal care
Asunto: Syphilis
Syphilis, Congenital
Women's Health
Health Education
Idioma: eng
País: Brasil
Editor: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Sigla da Institución: UFMG
Departamento: MED - DEPARTAMENTO DE PEDIATRIA
Tipo de acceso: Acesso Aberto
Identificador DOI: 10.1590/1806-93042021000100007
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/61687
Fecha del documento: 2021
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-93042021000100007
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil
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