Assessment on Association of Epidemiological Factors with Urinary Tract Infection Among Adults of South India

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are equally shared in both community and hospital setting. Good knowledge of epidemiological data is very necessary for the initial appropriate empirical treatment of UTI. The main aim is to find the associations of epidemiological data with the UTI. To assess the association of epidemiological factors with urinary tract infection, a questionnaire regarding sociodemographic details and basic information of UTI was formulated. The minimum of 412 sample size was measured using Raosoft software. Data were relocated into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and confirmed for its accuracy. In this study age, gender, marital status and education level were considered as epidemiological factors. The prevalence of urinary tract infection has equally distributed in all the age groups. About 60.1% of the female and 57.3% of the male participants are frequently suffering from the UTI. 82.7% of the married and 47.6% of the unmarried population are undergoing the burden of the disease. To conclude, the study strongly tells there is no association of the UTI with age but has a strong association with the gender, marital status and also the education level. The study also supports that most of the population have antibiotic-resistance UTI.