Table 4.

Mother level of knowledge of obstetric danger sign

No	Author	Definition of knowledgeable level	Danger sign
			During pregnancy		During childbirth		During post-partum		Newborn		Overall
			Good	Low – Not	Good	Low – Not	Good	Low – Not	Good	Low – Not	Good	Low – Not
1	Mwilike et al. (2018) [27, 33]	≥ 4 danger signs	31%	69%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	Vallely et al. (2019) [16]	≥ 3 danger signs	21,3%	78,7%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
3	Belay & Limenih (2020) [32]		71,4%	28,6%	65,3%	34,7%	22,1%	77,9%	-	-	-	-
4	Bogale & Markos (2015) [22]		31,9%	68,1%	27%	73%	22,1%	77,9%	-	-	-	-
5	Woldeamanuel et al. (2019) [25]		56,1%	-	58,8%	-	34,5%	-	-	-	-	-
6	Bililign & Mulatu (2017) [20]		46,7%	53,3%	27,8%	72,2%	26,4%	73,6%	-	-	-	-
7	Shamanewadi et al. (2020) [5]		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	100%	-
8	Maseresha et al. (2016) [4]	≥ 2 danger signs	25,5%	-	31,8%	-	19,1%	-	-	-	-	-
9	Dangura (2020) [23]		-	-	45,5%	-	29,1%	-	-	-	-	-
10	Nigussie et al. (2019) [8]		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	37,9%	-
11	Wassihun et al. (2020) [21]		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	40,5%	59,5%
12	Nkamba et al. (2021) [6]		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	76%	23%
13	Oguntunde et al. (2021) [18]		50%	-	58%	-	29,1%	-	-	-	-	-
14	Salem et al. (2018) [31]	≥ 1 danger signs	80,9%	-	51,9%	-	50,8%	-	53,2%	-	-	-
15	Tjandraprawira & Ghozali (2019) [1]	Scored above mean	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	61,4%	38,6%
16	Amenu et al. (2016) [7]		52,1%	-	53,3%	-	46,4%	-	-	-	-	-
17	Vijay et al. (2015) [24]	Understand > 75%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6,38%	93%
18	Tamang et al. (2021) [14]		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	62,8%	37,2%
19	Mardiyanti et al. (2019) [13]	Not explained	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	72,4%	26,9%
20	Emeh et al. (2021) [19]		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	73,3%	26,7%