Research Article
Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection among Pregnant Women in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Table 3
Results of bivariate metaregression for the prevalence of HCV infection among pregnant women in Ethiopia, 2020.
| Covariate | Category | Number of studies | Std. err. | Metaregression coefficient | value | Adjusted R2 (%) |
| Year of publication | Until 2015 | 3 | 2.683904 | 3.236623 | 0.154 | −29.99 | After 2015 | 3 | 2.82759 | −2.683904 | 0.396 |
| Sample size | <384 | 2 | 2.602811 | 1.438686 | 0.610 | −24.68 | >384 | 4 | 4.501046 | −2443958 | 0.959 |
| Screening method used | Rapid test | 4 | 2.645513 | −1.055988 | 0.710 | 0.46 | ELISA | 2 | 3.760814 | 3.569947 | 0.396 |
| Quality of papers | Good | 4 | 2.355038 | 2.69041 | 0.317 | 41.88 | Medium | 2 | 3.291085 | −1.430298 | 0.686 |
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