Association between birth interval and wasting in children under 5 years of age in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
| Autor: | Biruk Beletew Abate, Mesfin Wudu Kassaw, Ayelign Mengesha Kassie, Ayele Mamo Abebe, Murat Açik |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Asia MEDLINE child & adolescent psychiatry child protection Birth Intervals Meta-Analysis as Topic Environmental health medicine Forest plot Prevalence Humans Child Wasting nutrition & dietetics Nutrition and Metabolism business.industry Malnutrition General Medicine Publication bias Critical appraisal Systematic review Meta-analysis Child Preschool Medicine Ethiopia medicine.symptom business community child health Systematic Reviews as Topic |
| Zdroj: | BMJ Open BMJ Open, Vol 10, Iss 11 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2044-6055 |
| Popis: | IntroductionAccording to the UNICEF, WHO and World Bank joint estimation, 1 in every 13 children suffered from wasting globally. The highest burden of undernutrition recorded in Asia and Africa. Wasting remains a considerable public health problem in Ethiopia despite the introduction of exhaustive nutritional programmes. As reported in the literature, the prevalence of wasting in Ethiopia has remained high over the last four decades. In Ethiopia, more than one-third of child deaths are associated with malnutrition. The current nutritional interventions implemented in Ethiopia need to be evidence based. For this purpose, systematic review is preferable as it can present a more reliable and precise estimate than individual studies. The aim of this review is to assess the pooled prevalence of wasting and its association with birth interval in Ethiopia.MethodologyStudies published after 20 January 2012 will be retrieved from databases, mainly PubMed/Medline, Scopus, Embase, CINAHL and HINARI. The articles retrieved from databases will be selected after reading the title, abstract and full text. Three reviewers will independently assess the quality of each study using both the Joanna Briggs Institute and Ottawa Scale critical appraisal checklists. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses checklist will be used to maintain scientific strength. Funnel plots, Egger’s test and Begg’s test will be used to deal with publication bias, and I2, forest plots and Cochrane’s Q square statistics will be used for heterogeneity. Potential causes of heterogeneity will be explored through sensitivity and subgroup analyses. Because heterogeneity among studies is inevitable, given the wide geographical area and variety of study designs, the Der-Simonian and Laird random-effects model will be used. The presence of a statistical association between birth interval and wasting will be declared if the p value is Ethics and disseminationEthical issues will not be applicable to this review and meta-analysis. This review and meta-analysis will report the pooled prevalence of wasting and its association with birth interval in Ethiopia. Effort will be made to publish the findings in a peer-reviewed journal such as the Ethiopian Journal of Health and Development, and the findings will be presented at national conferences. A hard copy will also be sent to Woldia University and Debre Berhan University. |
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