Incident of Chlamydia in Young Women - Study and Significance

Chlamydia is a prevalent sexually transmitted disease in the USA, with younger women aged 14-24 being the most affected. Lack of awareness and social stigma contribute to the exponential increase in incidents. Early detection is crucial to reduce transmission. The study aims to provide awareness and better screening tests for physicians. The target population includes physicians, infected and cured women. References include studies on the prevalence and incidence of Chlamydia.

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Incident of Chlamydia in young women
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Statement of problem:
Chlamydia is one of the most modifiable sexually transmitted diseases in the USA. The
infection most prevalent in the younger women aged in between 14 to 24 years old. Infections
are usually asymptotic yet cause the pelvic inflammation which in turn causes the pelvic
inflammation. The study detected that the mortality rate exponentially increases along with the
health crisis of the women. From most of the accumulated evidence, it was observed that due to
lack of awareness and illiteracy, the incident is increased exponentially. Majority of the incidents
are unreported due to social stigma, and consequently, the prevalence increases overall 4.7 %
every year. Moreover, since the infection is asymptotic, the majority of the younger women have
lack of understanding. It can be controlled by early detection which in turn would reduce the
transmission.
The significance of the study:
Infection with the bacteria, Chlamydia trachoma is, is most frequently observed sexually
transmitted disease. In 2016, the total number of 1,598,358 Chlamydia infections was reported to
CDC in the diverse country (Seña et al., 2018). The count rate was reported approximately, 497.3
cases per 100000 of the population. Although, the scope of diagnosis was expended over the year
due to lack of awareness and social stigma majority of the younger women are not aware of the
infection. During 2000-2001, the rate of the incident increases 251.4 to 453.4 cases per 100000
of the population and global burden increases (Moore et al., 2016). Besides, the infected women

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who are pregnant can pass the infection to the fetus during delivery. The increased use of
laboratory reporting also increased in the last decade, but there is the prevalence of the
incomplete reporting also observed. In 2016, 6.4% of cases are reported from the STD clinics,
and 78.4% of cases were reported outside of the STD clinic reported (Kreisel et al., 2017). The
potential reason for increasing the incidents even in men is because of the lack of detection is
transmitted to men. Moreover, negligence of the physician is also a potential reason for
increasing the incident and global burden. In the majority of the hospital, women were diagnosed
and treated by a general physician not a specialist (Sunderam et al., 2017). Therefore, lack of
sound knowledge increases the incidence. Therefore, the significance of the study is to provide a
brief idea of the incident of Chlamydia (Kreisel et al., 2017). The successful completion of the
study will help the physician to understand the area of concern and come up with a better
screening test. This will also provide awareness to the younger women for preventing the
infection.
Target population:
The participants were selected from 4 healthcare settings from their STD departmental
wards. 10 participants will be purposely selected from each sector who can be physicians,
women who have an infection and who are completely cured of infection. The participants would
be fluent in English and will be comfortable for conducting the study (Seña et al., 2018).

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References :
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Moore, M. S., Golden, M. R., Scholes, D., & Kerani, R. P. (2016). Assessing trends in chlamydia
positivity and gonorrhea incidence and their associations with the incidence of pelvic
inflammatory disease and ectopic pregnancy in Washington state, 1988–2010. Sexually
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Seña, A. C., Lee, J. Y., Schwebke, J., Philip, S. S., Wiesenfeld, H. C., Rompalo, A. M., ... &
Hobbs, M. M. (2018). A silent epidemic: the prevalence, incidence and persistence of
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Sunderam, S., Kissin, D. M., Crawford, S. B., Folger, S. G., Jamieson, D. J., Warner, L., &
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