Table 1.
Characteristic of the systematic reviews of modern contraceptives utilization and its associated factors among postpartum women in Ethiopia, 2024.
| Authors (year) | Review objective | Search strategy | Reported prevalence | Included studies | Population | Risk of bias | Sample size | AMSTAR quality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silesh et al. (2023) (22) | To assess the pooled estimate of immediate postpartum family planning utilization and its associated factors in Ethiopia | Electronic databases were used to conduct an extensive search of all published studies, and the digital library was used to identify any unpublished studies. Search date was until July 30, 2022. Clear searching terms were defined. All available studies from 2016 to 2020 were included. Clear inclusion and exclusion criteria's were defined. | 21.04% (95% CI:13.08, 29.00), I2 = 98.43% | 15 (13 cross sectional and 2 case control) | Postpartum women | The quality of included studies were appraised clearly using NOS | 6,444 | 10 |
| A. Tesfu et al. (2022) (23) | To estimate the pooled prevalence and factors associated with postpartum modern contraceptive use in Ethiopia. | PubMed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Hinari, Google Scholar, direct Google search, African Journal Online (AJOL), online repository, and gray pieces of literature were used. Search date was before April 30, 2019. Clear searching terms were defined. Studies conducted in Ethiopia from 2012 to 2019 were included. Clear inclusion and exclusion criteria's were defined | 45.44% (95% CI: 31.47, 59.42), I2 = 99.7% | 18 (16 cross sectional and 2 cohort) | Postpartum mothers | The quality of the studies has been transparently assessed | 10,883 | 10 |
| Kassa et al. (2021) (24) | To assess post-partum intrauterine contraceptive device utilization and its associated factors among women in Ethiopia | PubMed, Google Scholar, EMBASE, HINAR, Scopus, Web of Sciences, and Grey literature. The searching periods were from January 12, 2020, to February 12, 2020. Clear searching terms was defined. Clear inclusion and exclusion criteria were defined. All available studies from 2015 to 2021 were included | 21.63% (95% CI: 14.46, 28.81), I2 = 99.7% | 12 (all were cross sectional) | Women of reproductive age group, pregnant and post-partum women | The quality of included studies were appraised clearly | 4,367 | 9 |
| Wakuma et al. (2020) (25) | To determine the best available pieces of evidence to pool the magnitude of postpartum modern contraception utilization and find out its determinants | Medline, Scopes, PubMed, CINAHL, Embase, Cochrane library, the JBI Library, the Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Google search engines. The search was conducted from November 14th to December 5th, 2019 without limiting the publication dates of the articles. Clear searching terms was defined. Clear inclusion and exclusion criteria were defined. | 45.79% (95% CI: 36.45, 55.13). I2 = 99.2% | 19 (18 were cross sectional and 1 cohort) | Postpartum women | The quality of included studies were appraised clearly using JBI-MAStARI | 11,932 | 9 |
| Tsegaye Mehare et al. (2020) (26) | To estimate the pooled prevalence of postpartum contraceptive use and determinants in Ethiopia using the accessible studies | MEDLINE through PubMed, Science Direct, EMBASE, HINARI, and Cochrane Library. The searching was carried out from the 13th of April to the 23rd of May 2019. All papers published in English from 2015 to May 23rd of 2019 were included in the review. From Google and Google Scholar, unpublished studies have been retrieved. Clear searching terms was defined. Clear inclusion and exclusion criteria were defined. | 48.11% (95% CI: 36.96, 59.27), I2 = 99.4% | 18 (all were cross sectional) | Postpartum women | The quality of included studies were appraised clearly using NOS | 10,650 | 9 |
SR, systematic review; MA, meta-analysis; AMSTAR, assessment of multiple systematic reviews tool; NOS, Newcastle–Ottawa scale; JBI-MAStARI, The Joanna Briggs Institute Meta-Analysis of Statistics Assessment and Review Instrument.