A Study Of Prevalence And Risk Factors For Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Reformatory Population Of Xinjiang Urumqi

Objective: TO determine the status of hepatitis C virus infection and its risk factors among the reformatory population. Methods: Uses the cross-sectional study, extracts the Urumqi reformatory all masculine being in custody personnel 523 and one township male 1034 named investigation objects, and carries on the questionnaire survey. the content includes: the demography characteristic, the behavior of take drugs, the sex act, whether there is to transfuse blood, behaviors and so on tattoo, simultaneously gathers all surveyor blood serum specimen, with the ELISA method examination blood serum in hepatitis C virus infection designated object anti--HCV, the material carries on the statistical analysis with the SPSS13.0 software. Result: Survey reformatory population with an average age of 20.31±6.78, the control group with average age of 24.60±12.29. reformatory officers and the control group are mainly young people, the number closer to the Han ethnic minorities, have low education level. The reformatory and control group anti--HCV the masculine gender rate Han Nationality, the Uygur national minority personnel difference has statistics significance (P<0.05); 14~ age group difference have statistics significance (P<0.05); The junior middle school group difference has statistics significance (P<0.05); In the reformatory the different years of schooling anti--HCV masculine gender rate difference has statistics significance (P<0.05). The anti--HCV total masculine gender rate of the 523 reformatory serums is 2.67%, The anti--HCV total masculine gender rate of the exception taking drugs personnel is 1.80%, The anti--HCV masculine gender rate of the control group is 0.39%. The reformatory population unsafe sex act anti--HCV masculine gender rate and the control group difference have statistics significance (P<0.05). The reformatory crowd indicated after the multi-factor Logistic regression analysis: In the reformatory the taking drugs personnel are the HCV infection high-risk groups. Conclusion: After the infective agent analytical study, the unsafe sex act is possible related with HCV infection, the reformatory masculine taking drugs personnel are the HCV infection high-risk factors. Therefore, should take the effective action to this crowd to carry on the strict management, carries out the HCV infection public education positively, this regarding controls and eliminates the hepatitis C origin of infection, prevents HCV to have the important epidemiology significance in the social crowd's dissemination.