Objective:

to determine the incidence of sexually transmitted infections in child and adolescent consultation.

Methods:

an observational, descriptive, transversal study was conducted whose universe were all patients with diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections who attended child and adolescent consultation of pediatric specialty clinic, Camagüey, from September 1st, 2017 to August 31st, 2018, they were 50. The variables studied were: age groups, marital status, type of sexually transmitted infection, association with other sexually transmitted infections, predisposed factors for acquisition (sexual risk behavior, cervicitis and antecedents of former sexually transmitted infections), and sexual preferences. The information obtained was processed using the statistical package SPSS for Microsoft Excel 2017. The methods used were descriptive statistics distribution of absolute and relative frequencies. The results were presented in tables.

Results:

the most affected age group was between 13 to 15 years, singles and heterosexual. Vaginal candidiasis was predominated, followed by genital warts. About half of the patients have not transmitted infections consociated. Genital warts were the most consociated. The risk factors that prevailed were antecedents of former sexually transmitted infections and sexually risky sexual behavior. In the last one predominated early sexual life and frequent change of partner.

Conclusions:

these results show the necessity of sexual education for the adolescents to have a healthy sexuality.

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