Table 4.
Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) summary of findings table for the outcomes of the systematic review and meta-analysis
Quality assessment | Summary of results | ||||||||
Number of studies | Study design | Risk of bias | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | Publication biases | Number of participants | Effect | General quality |
Prevalence (95%CI) | |||||||||
22 | Cross-sectional | Serious* | Very serious** | No serious | Serious*** | Not detected | 13,365 | 40.3% (95% CI: 32.2%–48.7%) | ⊕○○○ Very low |
*High risk of bias was detected in 40.9% of studies
**High inconsistency, assessed through heterogeneity, was detected in the meta-analyses
***The confidence interval of the effect estimate varied more than 5 points