Abstract

LUGO GONZALEZ, Ana María et al. Strategy care in pregnant vaginal discharge syndrome. Sancti Spíritus. Gac Méd Espirit [online]. 2014, vol.16, n.2, pp. 41-54. ISSN 1608-8921.

Background: sexually transmitted infections are a health problem worldwide, but in the province there is a lack of information on scientific basis of the results of the implementation of the strategy for the care of vaginal discharge syndrome in Primary Health Care. Objective: to describe the results of the implementation of the strategy for the care of vaginal discharge from the information provided by specialists from 16 family doctor offices in three municipalities of Sancti Spíritus. Methodology: descriptive, cross investigation was used that included 16 specialists in Comprehensive General Medicine with equal number of Type 1 doctor offices of prioritized municipalities for sexually transmitted infections, to whom a survey was applied, the results were presented in tables using absolute and relative frequencies. Results: more than half of the cared pregnant women suffered vaginal discharge syndrome and their sexual partners were studied as well, doctors are aware of the flowchart; physicians dominate the content of the stock of medicines for treatment better in Sancti Spiritus and Fomento; they are lack of information about the free drug delivery module devoted to this condition and all of them know the medical procedures to follow in the presence of a woman with vaginal discharge. Conclusions: the strategy for the management of vaginal discharge syndrome in pregnant women is not properly implemented in the municipalities studied, due to the lack of availability of effective and free drugs in the healthcare area for the treatment of pregnant women and their partners.

Keywords : leukorrhea; Pregnancy Complications; Infectious; vaginosis; bacterial; epidemiology; drug therapy; vaginal diseases; sexually transmitted diseases; physicians family; primary health care; pregnant; vaginal discharge syndrome; treatment.

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