Review Article
Compliance to Iron-Folic Acid Supplementation and Its Association with the Number of ANC Visits in Ethiopia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Table 1
Descriptive summary of 12 studies included in the meta-analysis of prevalence compliance to iron-folic acid supplementation in Ethiopia, 2018.
| Region | Study site | Author name | Publication year | Sample size | Response rate | Prevalence | Newcastle-Ottawa Scale |
| Tigray | Community | Gebre et al. | 2015 | 714 | 100 | 35.85 | 7 | Community | Getachew et al. | 2015 | 320 | 100 | 64.70 | 7 | Facility | Gebre et al. | 2015 | 450 | 98.4 | 22.90 | 7 |
| Amhara | Community | Taye et al. | 2015 | 628 | 100 | 20.40 | 8 | Facility | Birhanu et al. | 2018 | 418 | 100 | 55.30 | 7 |
| Oromia | Facility | Tegegne et al. | 2017 | 405 | 95.9 | 18.00 | 8 | Facility | Niguse et al. | 2018 | 296 | 93.00 | 59.80 | 7 |
| Southern | Facility | Jikamo et al. | 2018 | 365 | 86.60 | 69.59 | 6 | Community | Gebremedhin et al. | 2014 | 1563 | 97.10 | 3.50 | 6 | Community | Arega et al. | 2015 | 296 | 97.60 | 39.20 | 7 |
| City administration | Facility | Gebreamlak et al. | 2017 | 557 | 88.90 | 60.00 | 8 | Facility | Aabdi et al. | 2018 | 217 | 97.30 | 76.00 | 6 |
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