Resumen de Clinic-epidemiological characteristics and factors associated with pediculosis capitis in a public school, Lima 2012
Pediculosis is one of the most important chronic infestations and more frequent in school in the world. Objective: To determine the epidemiological and clinical factors associated with head lice in schoolchildren of a Public School, San Juan de Miraflores District, Lima, Peru.Cross-analytical conducted in a sample of 138 students distributed by simple random sampling. We applied a data collection sheet and subjected to physical inspection to establish the infestation, which was defined as the presence of at least one louse, nymph or embryo apparently viable. Bivariate analysis was performed with the chi square test was corrected by the Fisher test, multivariate analysis using General Linear Model (GLM), calculating prevalence ratio with confidence intervals at 95%, the association was determined with a value of p <0.05 as significant, we used STATA v.11. We found that 50.7% were women, the predominant age range was between 7-8 years (42.8%). We found 83 (60.01%) pupils infested with Pediculus capitis, of which 77.1% were females. Pediculosis association was found to have a hair length greater than 3 cm (PR = 2.56 CI (95%) = 1.13 to 5.93). There is a high frequency of infestation by P. capitis in National School evaluated factor being associated hair having a length of more than 3 cm.
