Prevalence and associated factors of adolescent undernutrition in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BMC Nutrition

Table 2 Summary of meta-analysis for associated factors of adolescent stunting in Ethiopia, 2017

s.no	Factor	Number of studies	OR (95%CI)	P-value	Heterogeneity			Egger’s test (p-value)
s.no	Factor	Number of studies	OR (95%CI)	P-value	Q-value	p-value	I²	Egger’s test (p-value)
1	Residence (rural)	3	2.19 (1.59,3.02)	< 0.001	2.49	0.29	19.89	0.08
2	Age (early adolescent)	7	0.87 (0.29,2.55)	0.79	230	< 0.001	97.39	0.38
3	Family size(≥5)	2	2.25 (1.6,3.13)	< 0.001	0.44	0.51	0.000	0.16
4	Source of drinking water (unprotected)	2	3.39 (2.34,4.91)	< 0.001	0.19	0.66	0.000	0.23
5	Food insecure household	3	2.04 (1.67,2.49)	< 0.001	1.79	0.41	0.000	0.73
6	Sex (female)	5	0.99 (0.57,1.71)	0.96	22.97	< 0.001	82.59	0.84

OR Odds ratio, CI Confidence interval, Q-value = reflects study variability, I² (Tua-square) = estimated variance of the observed effect sizes

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