A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol on stunting and its determinants among school-age children (6-14years) in Ethiopia

In Ethiopia, stunting is a common public health problem among school-age children. Even though several studies were conducted in different parts of the country, the national pooled prevalence of stunting and its determinants not estimated. Therefore, this study intends to determine the pooled preval...

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Published in:PloS one 2021-03, Vol.16 (3), p.e0248390-e0248390
Main Authors: Aychiluhm, Setognal Birara, Tadesse, Abay Woday, Mare, Kusse Urmale, Abebaw, Dessie, Worku, Netsanet
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Age
Biology and Life Sciences
Child
Children
Children & youth
Demographic aspects
Developing countries
Epidemiology
Ethiopia - epidemiology
Grey literature
Growth disorders
Growth Disorders - epidemiology
Health sciences
Heat affected zone
Humans
LDCs
Malnutrition in children
Medical ethics
Medical schools
Medicine
Medicine and Health Sciences
Meta-analysis
Meta-Analysis as Topic
Nutrition
Nutritional aspects
Online data bases
People and Places
Physical Sciences
Physiological aspects
Prevalence
Public health
Registered Report Protocol
Registration
Research and Analysis Methods
Schools - statistics & numerical data
Science Policy
Systematic review
Systematic Reviews as Topic
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Summary:In Ethiopia, stunting is a common public health problem among school-age children. Even though several studies were conducted in different parts of the country, the national pooled prevalence of stunting and its determinants not estimated. Therefore, this study intends to determine the pooled prevalence and determinants of stunting among school-age children in Ethiopia. This review protocol is registered at PROSPERO with Registration number: CRD42020160625. Online databases (Medline, PubMed, Scopus, and Science direct), Google, Google Scholar, and other grey literature will be used to search articles until June 2020. The quality assessment will be performed using the Joanna Briggs Institute checklist. The analysis will be organized and presented according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis. The presence of heterogeneity among studies will be examined using a chi-squared test on Cochran's Q statistic with a 5% level of statistical significance, subgroup analyses, and meta-regression will be performed to investigate sources of heterogeneity. To identify influential studies, sensitivity analysis will be conducted. Presence publication bias will be examined by observing funnel plots. The presence of a statistical association will be declared at a p-value
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0248390