[Morbidity of adolescents at the Kaya Regional Hospital Center (Burkina Faso)].

AIM: This study aimed to determine the epidemiological and evolutionary profile of hospital-based adolescent disease in Kaya, Burkina Faso.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional descriptive studyall adolescents hospitalized from 2014 to 2015 at the regional hospital center (CHR) of Kaya.

RESULTS: A total of 1,312 adolescents were hospitalized during the study period, an hospitalization rate of 7.21%. The mean age was 15.52 ± 3 years with a sex ratio of 0.63. The services most frequently used were gynecology obstetrics (30.87%), surgery (29.72%) and pediatrics (24.16%). Disease states were dominated by the pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (24.08%), follow-up of traumatic lesions (19.43%), infectious and parasitic diseases (16.61%). Traumatic ailments were predominant in boys and were mainly due to road accidents (12.73%) and falling from trees.

CONCLUSION: Teenagers giving births, traumatic injuries, infectious and parasitic diseases including malaria were the main causes of hospitalization in our study. The solution could come from sex education, use of bed nets and awareness of the driving code.