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

BMC Nutrition

Table 3 Summary of meta-analysis for associated factors of adolescent underweight 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	Age (early adolescent)	9	2.45 (1.46,4.1)	0.001	83.14	< 0.001	90.34	0.45
2	Family size(≥5)	4	2.95 (1.76, 4.93)	< 0.001	17.62	0.001	82.97	0.69
3	Food insecure household	2	2.38 (1.54,3.69)	< 0.001	1.22	0.27	17.91
4	Sex (female)	8	0.69 (0.41,1.12)	0.18	77.46	< 0.001	90.96	0.65
5	Lack of latrine	2	2.19 (1.09,4.4)	0.03	8.8	0.003	88.65
6	WHO Diet diversity score (< 4)	5	1.95 (1.31,2.92)	0.001	14.39	0.006	72.2	0.88
7	Father education (illiterate)	2	0.89 (0.64,1.26)	0.5	0.93	0.34	0.000
8	Mother education (illiterate)	5	4.1 (2.42,6.95)	< 0.001	25.59	< 0.001	84.37	0.47

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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