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The aim was to determine the factors associated with gestational syphilis among postpartum women who were in a prenatal care program in the Brazilian Amazon.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>An unmatched case\u2013control study was conducted at the hospital in Brazil. Data collection was carried out from November 2020 to July 2021 during hospitalization using a pretested structured questionnaire. The criteria for selection of cases and control followed the guidelines established by the Ministry of Health of Brazil; postpartum women with a laboratory diagnosis based on treponemal and\/or nontreponemal tests, symptoms of syphilis or asymptomatic, treatment or not treated, and in a prenatal care program. Gestational syphilis cases were identified as women who tested positive for syphilis, and those who tested negative were controls, at minimally one prenatal care visit, childbirth, and\/or the puerperium. The sample size encompassed 59 cases and 118 controls (1: 2 ratio of cases to controls). Data were analyzed using Minitab 20<jats:sup>\u00ae<\/jats:sup> and BioEstat 5.3<jats:sup>\u00ae<\/jats:sup> software. The odds ratio was calculated by multiple logistic regression.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>One hundred and seventy-seven postpartum women were included in the study, 59 cases and 118 controls. Among all participants, 95.5% (169) were tested for syphilis in any trimester during pregnancy and at the delivery and 4.5% (8) were tested in the maternity only, at the time childbirth and\/or puerperium. The final multiple logistic regression model evidenced that cases had higher odds compared to controls if they had past history of sexually transmitted infections (AOR: 55.4; <jats:italic>p:<\/jats:italic> 0.00), difficulty talking about condom use with their sexual partner (AOR: 4.92; <jats:italic>p:<\/jats:italic> 0.01), one to six prenatal care visits (AOR: 4.93; <jats:italic>p:<\/jats:italic> 0.01), had not received a sexually transmitted infections test result in the maternity hospital (AOR: 4.09; <jats:italic>p:<\/jats:italic> 0.04), lower monthly income (AOR: 4.32; <jats:italic>p:<\/jats:italic> 0.04), or one to three miscarriages (AOR: 4.34; <jats:italic>p:<\/jats:italic> 0.01).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The sociodemographic, programmatic, obstetric, and sexual factors are associated with gestational syphilis among postpartum women.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpubh.2022.930150","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,9]],"date-time":"2022-11-09T14:22:36Z","timestamp":1668003756000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Determinants of gestational syphilis among women attending prenatal care programs in the Brazilian Amazon"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Thais Lopes do Amaral","family":"Uch\u00f4a","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eliete da Cunha","family":"Ara\u00fajo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Richardson Augusto Rosendo","family":"da Silva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rubenilson","family":"Valois","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wanderson Santiago de","family":"Azevedo Junior","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Val\u00e9ria Gabriele Caldas","family":"Nascimento","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Cintia Yolette Urbano Pauxis","family":"Aben-Athar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Andressa Tavares","family":"Parente","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eli\u00e3 Pinheiro","family":"Botelho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Glenda Roberta Oliveira Naiff","family":"Ferreira","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"e0211720","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0211720","article-title":"Global burden of maternal and congenital syphilis and associated adverse birth outcomes-Estimates for 2016 and progress since 2012","volume":"14","author":"Korenromp","year":"2019","journal-title":"PLoS One."},{"key":"B2","unstructured":"Global guidance on criteria and processes for validation: elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, 2nd editionGeneva2017"},{"key":"B3","unstructured":"Minist\u00e9rio da Sa\u00fade. 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