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Infertility and associated factors in three hospitals in Douala, Cameroon: a cross-sectional study

AIM: We determined the prevalence and factors associated with couple infertility in three hospitals in Douala, Cameroon. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study from December 18th 2015 to March 18th 2016 in three public hospitals in Douala. Three hundred and sixty participants were studied pro...

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Autores principales: Egbe, Thomas Obinchemti, Mbaki, Charmaine Ngo, Tendongfor, Nicholas, Temfack, Elvis, Belley-Priso, Eugene
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Publicado: Makerere Medical School 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8351857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34394265
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v20i4.57
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author Egbe, Thomas Obinchemti
Mbaki, Charmaine Ngo
Tendongfor, Nicholas
Temfack, Elvis
Belley-Priso, Eugene
author_facet Egbe, Thomas Obinchemti
Mbaki, Charmaine Ngo
Tendongfor, Nicholas
Temfack, Elvis
Belley-Priso, Eugene
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description AIM: We determined the prevalence and factors associated with couple infertility in three hospitals in Douala, Cameroon. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study from December 18th 2015 to March 18th 2016 in three public hospitals in Douala. Three hundred and sixty participants were studied prospectively for associated factors using a multivariate logistic regression model and 4732 files were studied retrospectively for the prevalence of infertility. Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05. RESULTS: The prevalence of couple infertility was 19.2%. In logistic models, the factors which independently increased the risk of couple infertility were a history of reproductive tract infection/STI, a history of uterine fibroids, a history of dysmenorrhea and abortion for the females while for males it was a history of mumps, erectile dysfunction and exposure to chemicals/toxic substances/pesticides. CONCLUSION: One in every five couples in this study was infertile. Several factors affect the risks associated with couple infertility. The identification of these factors could help detect subgroups of couples at high risk of infertility. Reproductive health education, screening programmes for STI's that may lead to infertility should be offered to couples.
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spelling pubmed-83518572021-08-12 Infertility and associated factors in three hospitals in Douala, Cameroon: a cross-sectional study Egbe, Thomas Obinchemti Mbaki, Charmaine Ngo Tendongfor, Nicholas Temfack, Elvis Belley-Priso, Eugene Afr Health Sci Articles AIM: We determined the prevalence and factors associated with couple infertility in three hospitals in Douala, Cameroon. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study from December 18th 2015 to March 18th 2016 in three public hospitals in Douala. Three hundred and sixty participants were studied prospectively for associated factors using a multivariate logistic regression model and 4732 files were studied retrospectively for the prevalence of infertility. Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05. RESULTS: The prevalence of couple infertility was 19.2%. In logistic models, the factors which independently increased the risk of couple infertility were a history of reproductive tract infection/STI, a history of uterine fibroids, a history of dysmenorrhea and abortion for the females while for males it was a history of mumps, erectile dysfunction and exposure to chemicals/toxic substances/pesticides. CONCLUSION: One in every five couples in this study was infertile. Several factors affect the risks associated with couple infertility. The identification of these factors could help detect subgroups of couples at high risk of infertility. Reproductive health education, screening programmes for STI's that may lead to infertility should be offered to couples. Makerere Medical School 2020-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8351857/ /pubmed/34394265 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v20i4.57 Text en © 2020 Egbe TO et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee African Health Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Egbe, Thomas Obinchemti
Mbaki, Charmaine Ngo
Tendongfor, Nicholas
Temfack, Elvis
Belley-Priso, Eugene
Infertility and associated factors in three hospitals in Douala, Cameroon: a cross-sectional study
title Infertility and associated factors in three hospitals in Douala, Cameroon: a cross-sectional study
title_full Infertility and associated factors in three hospitals in Douala, Cameroon: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Infertility and associated factors in three hospitals in Douala, Cameroon: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Infertility and associated factors in three hospitals in Douala, Cameroon: a cross-sectional study
title_short Infertility and associated factors in three hospitals in Douala, Cameroon: a cross-sectional study
title_sort infertility and associated factors in three hospitals in douala, cameroon: a cross-sectional study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8351857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34394265
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v20i4.57
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