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Conocimientos sobre toxoplasmosis de las mujeres en edad fértil de un consultorio médico en Trinidad


 
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Revista Cubana de Medicina General Integral

 ISSN 0864-2125

RUSINDO HERNANDEZ, Nicel et al. Knowledge about toxoplasmosis by women of childbearing age from a family doctor's office located in Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus. []. , 30, 2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 0864-2125.

Introduction: toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, which is of interest to public health due to the risk of parasite transmission from mother to fetus during pregnancy. Objective: to explore the level of knowledge about toxoplasmosis of women at childbearing age in the family doctor's office no. 21 under polyclinic II in Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus. Methods: across-sectional descriptive study based on questionnaire applied to 119 women of childbearing age of whom 15 were pregnant (12.61% ) and 104 non-pregnant women was conducted (87.39 % ). Results: ahigh percentage of tested women showed unsatisfactory results. A sizeable number of respondents related cats to this disease. Conclusions: knowledge of surveyed women on toxoplasmosis was poor, which points to the need for educational intervention about this topic with a view to preventing negative effects

: toxoplasmosis; congenital toxoplasmosis; questionnaires; knowledge.

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