Table 3.
Subgroup analysis which describes pooled burden of UTI and its associated factors among pregnant women in Ethiopia from 2007 to 2018.
| Subgroup | No. of studies | Prevalence (95% CI) | Heterogeneity statistics | I 2 | p value | |
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| Region | Amhara | 5 | 11.61 (9, 13) | 3.03 | 0.0 | 0.553 |
| Tigray | 2 | 16.37 (7, 25) | 5.59 | 82.1 | 0.018 | |
| SNNPR | 2 | 22.26 (15, 29) | 2.70 | 62.9 | 0.101 | |
| AA | 2 | 13.09 (9, 16) | 0.82 | 0.0 | 0.366 | |
| Others | 2 | 20.14 (7, 32) | 8.95 | 88.1 | 0.003 | |
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| Publication year | Before 2015 | 5 | 12.19 (9, 15) | 6.79 | 41.1 | 0.143 |
| 2015 & above | 6 | 18.88 (13, 23) | 24.13 | 79.3 | <0.001 | |
| Unpublished | 2 | 13.27 (9, 16) | 0.67 | 0.0 | 0.412 | |
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| Sampling technique | Consecutive | 11 | 14.92 (12, 17) | 30.01 | 66.7 | 0.001 |
| Systematic random | 2 | 18.03 (2, 33) | 15.12 | 92.1 | <0.001 | |
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| Sample size | <250 | 7 | 14.51 (10, 18) | 22.00 | 72.1 | 0.001 |
| >250 | 6 | 16.4 (11, 21) | 22.25 | 77.5 | <0.001 | |