Introduction:

cervical cancer represents a serious public health problem despite being highly preventable.

Objective:

to determine the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the participation of women in the area of ​​influence of a Public Hospital in the prevention of cervical cancer between the months of January to December of the years 2020 to 2021.

Methodology:

non-experimental cross-sectional descriptive design, with a quantitative approach. The total number of women participating in the prevention of cervical cancer in the area of ​​influence of the Public Hospital was included. Secondary data were used that were loaded into a previously prepared form.

Results:

61 % of the women were of 13 years old at risk, 83 % were not pregnant and 17 % were pregnant, 53 % had a history of PAP and 47 % did not, 86 % had a negative result for lesion, 9 % inflammatory and 4 % positive. Among the positive results, the predominant one was ASCUS with 47 %. The majority women had a negative PAP result. As a conclusion among women with positive results, there was a predominance of ASCUS diagnoses and in second place CIN I LSIL.

Conclusion:

the features that were found to be significantly associated with the PAP result were: being part of the age group at risk and presence of pregnancy. It is suggested to continue emphasizing prevention and follow-up, to investigate the ages at risk and to include other variables of interest in future studies.

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