Abstract:
Introduction: Untitled this Study ‟prevalence of Neisseria gonorrhea infections and its
associated factors among 18-49 years old women attending Kibogora District Hospital”.
Thisinfection is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by Neisseria gonorrhea
bacterium. N. gonorrhea infects the mucous membranes of the reproductive tract, including the
cervix, uterus, and fallopian tubes in, and the urethra in women and men. The Objectives of this
study are (1) To determine the rate of Neisseria Gonorrheainfections among 18-49 years old
women attending Kibogora District Hospital, (2) To evaluate the most affected age group by the
gonorrheal infection among 18-49 years old, (3) To assess possible risk factors associated with
Neisseria Gonorrhea among18-49 year’s old women attending Kibogora District Hospital.
Method: The study adopted a retrospective design with quantitative approach. The study
wasincluded of 226women between 18-49 years old. Secondary data from 2018-2020 were used
and checklist for risk factors. Data analysis was performed using the statistical package for
social sciences (SPSS) software, version 20.
Results: This study found theprevalence of Neisseria gonorrhea infectionsamong 18-49 years
old women attending Kibogora District Hospital was 27(11.9%) among 226 patients. The risk
factors associated with Neisseria Gonorrhea in patients under study are Age group, marital
status and sex without condom usage. This decision has been set due to the facts that the
corresponding p-value associated to the Chi-square statistics of these factors is all less than the
cutoff (5%). That is, for the age group χ² (9) = 2.582, p-value=0.02 , marital status χ² (8)
= 7.964, p-value=0.043 and sex without condom usage χ² (14) = 27.812, p-value=0.01
.
Conclusion: This study concludes that, ‟prevalence of Neisseria gonorrhea infections and its
associated factors among 18-49 years old women attending Kibogora District Hospital were
(11.9%) greater than the one from retrospective study conducted in Rwanda found that
theprevalence of Neisseria gonorrhea from inpatient and outpatient attending Butare University
Teaching Hospitalwas 5.66%. Intervention in aims at Eradication of Neisseria gonorrheaneeds
to educate Women to avoid sex transmission Infection by using Condom and the Ministry of
health to improve availability of these condoms in all higher population center and mass
screening and treatment of high suspected persons
