Table 3.

Prevalence of soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) by region, age of children and year of publication among Ethiopian Children, 2020

Variables	No. of studies	Sample	Cases	Prevalence (95% CI)	Heterogeneity		p value
					Q	I2 (%)
Region
Addis Ababa city	1	296	10	3 (2–6%)	–	–	–
Amhara region	36	36,809	12,374	34 (28–41%)	8325.55	99.58	p < 0.001
Benishangul-Gumuz region	1	422	35	8 (6–11%)	–	–	–
Oromia region	20	9119	2780	31 (19–43%)	9070.41	99.79	p < 0.001
South Region	22	9379	3869	44 (31–58%)	7621.83	99.72	p < 0.001
Tigray region	8	5665	610	10 (7–12%	66.61	89.49	p < 0.001
Age
School	73	55,731	18,225	36 (31–42%)	27,820.22	99.74	p < 0.001
Preschool	13	5577	1408	20 (11–29%)	1764.59	99.32	p < 0.001
Both	2	382	45	6 (4–9%)	–	–	–
Year of publication
1997–2012	22	12,831	4607	44 (30–57%)	14,221.00	99.85	p < 0.001
2013–2020	66	48,859	15,071	30 (25–34%)	15,324.02	99.58	p < 0.001
Overall	88	61,690	19,678	33 (28–38%)	30,360.02	99.71	p < 0.001

CI Confidence Interval