Table 5.

Meta-analysis for the respective association of sex and presence of chronic illness with number of care hours during lockdown

Predictor	N	Study heterogeneity			OR (95% CI)	P value	Egger test P value
		I2	Q	P value
Ethnicity	4371	34.17%	0.218	0.218	0.53 (0.35 to 0.79)	0.002	N/A*
Chronic illness	12 684	13.22%	4.609	0.330	2.10 (1.72 to 2.56)	<0.0001	0.312

Significant p values are highlighted in bold.

*Egger test was not feasible as only two studies recorded ethnicity.

N/A, not available.