Authors: Ngatali Christian FS, Bolenga Liboko AF, Mabiala Y, Doukaga Moussavou RA, Moukassa D, Nkoua Mbon JB.
Objective: To determine the prevalence of risk factors of infection of human papillomavirus (HPV) in women in Lekoumou and Niari departments.
Patients and Methods: We conducted a descriptive and cross-sectional study over a period of 7 months from January to July 2019 in the Lekoumou department. 100 women whose ages ranged from 16 to 73 years old. The variables studied were as follows: age, marital status, level of education, age of first intercourse, number of sexual partners, parity, The bivariate analysis was done between age, number of level of instruction, parity, age of first sexual intercourse and number of sexual Partners. The statistical analysis and the data processing were carried out by the Excel 2016 software and the graphpad prism version 5 software. The statistical test used was the chi-square test.
Results: During this study we collected 100 women. The mean age of the patients was 34.6 ± 11.9 with ranges ranging from 16 to 73 years. The most represented age groups were 20-29 years old (31%) and 30-39 years old (29%). The highest level of education was college level in 53% of cases followed by primary level in 25% of cases. Almost ¾ of our study population were married women (74%), single people made up only 22% of the study population. The mean age at first intercourse was 16.4 ± 2.3 with extremes ranging from 12 to 25 years. Almost all of the women (97%) had had their first sexual intercourse before the age of 20. The average number of sexual partners was 5.3 ± 3.2 with extremes ranging from 1 to 15 partners, 53% of women had at least 5 sexual partners. The mean number of deliveries (parity) was 3.6 ± 2.4 with extremes ranging from 0 to 12 deliveries. 36% of our study population had between 4 and 7 deliveries.
Bivariate analysis found a statistically significant difference between age and number of sexual partners, between age of first intercourse and level of education, but also between age and number of children.
Conclusion: Cervical cancer is a public health problem. Apart from HPV infection, several cofactors have shown an associative link for its occurrence. It can be in our context mainly the number of children, parity and the number of sexual partners and the age at first intercourse.
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