Abstract

Considered as a public health problem, the Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) presents high incidence in pregnant women. Intimate hygiene after sexual relations, environment, body and hand hygiene, hydric ingestion, age and socioeconomic and educational level are some of the predisposing factors to the development of UTI. To identify the pregnant women’s knowledge about the socio-economic and educational level and how these women relate these conditions to the predisposing factors for the development of UTI. This is a transversal study in pregnant women, registered in the Brazilian System of the Follow-up Program of Humanization of Pre-natality and Birth (SispreNatal) in the period from 2015 to 2016. The data were analyzed using the SPSS, version 22 and descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages and means were estimated. The Committee of Ethics in Research approved the questionnaire under the process of the University of Santa Catarina State. From the 781 pregnant women included in SispreNatal, 92 (12.5%) accepted to participate in the research, 46 of them belonging to the neighborhood of São Pedro and 46 to the neighborhood Efapi, most of them (n=43, 46.8%) concluded high school. The UTI was present in 47 (51%) of the pregnant women, being more frequent in the neighborhood of São Pedro (n=26, 56.5%). Concerning the preventive orientations of UTI, only 30 (32.6%) pregnant women received some information. From these 30, 11 (36.7%) described the symptomatology as the perception of the infection, considering that 9 (9.7%) related the feminine etiology as a predisposing factor for the development of UTI. Our data met the immediate needs of the health services, but more efficient educational measures in the municipal public politics are suggested, although the identification of predisposing factors is complex.

Keywords: Environment and public health; Primary prevention; Pregnancy; Urinary tract infections