Clinical-epidemiological characterization of infertile couples

Abstract

Infertility is a health problem that affects about 10% of couples of reproductive age worldwide. In order to determine the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of infertile couples treated at the Jimmy Hirzel polyclinic in the municipality of Bayamo, Granma province, during January 2021 - December 2022, an observational, descriptive, longitudinal and retrospective study was carried out, which included 76 infertile couples. The following variables were studied: age, education, occupation, female and male risk factors for infertility. Data were obtained from medical records and descriptive statistics, absolute and relative frequencies were used for analysis. The research showed that the largest number of women and men were in the 25 to 34 age group (52.6% and 47.4% respectively); the 12th grade level of schooling predominated (43.4% women and 31.6% men); as well as patients who had an employment relationship (92.1% men and 68.4% women). Pelvic inflammatory disease was the most relevant clinical risk factor in women (21.1%), and seminal infection was the predominant clinical risk factor in men (32.9%). It was concluded that pelvic inflammatory disease in females and seminal infections in males were the clinical risk factors most commonly detected in the infertile couples studied, this being the main result of the research.