Prevalence of trachoma and associated factors in the rural area of the department of Vaupes, Colombia.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The objectives of the study were to estimate the prevalence of different clinical signs of trachoma and identify possible factors associated with TF.

Methodology

Following the approval of the study protocol by the ethics committee, a cross-sectional study was conducted in Vaupés, a department of the Colombian Amazon, between the years 2012 and 2013 in two districts. Based on the records obtained from a standardized format for the clinical evaluation of the participants and the factors associated with follicular trachoma, an excel database was built and debugged, which was analyzed using IBM SPSS, Statistics Version 23 and Stata STATA (Version 14, 2015, StataCorp LLC, Texas, USA).

Results

The records of 13,091 individuals was collected from 216 rural indigen

SUBMITTER: Miller HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7237033 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature