Review Article

The Level of Unmet Need for Family Planning and Its Predictors among HIV-Positive Women in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 1

Search strategies used for PubMed and related databases to assess candidate studies for the systematic review and meta-analysis.

Data basesSearch termsNumber of studies

PubMed/Medlineunmet[All Fields] AND need[All Fields] OR “Unmet demand”[all fields] AND (“family planning services”[MeSH terms] OR (“family”[All Fields] AND “planning”[All Fields] AND “services”[All Fields]) OR “family planning services”[All Fields] OR (“family”[All Fields] AND “planning”[All Fields]) OR “family planning”[All Fields]) AND (“hiv seropositivity”[MeSH Terms] OR (“hiv”[All Fields] AND “seropositivity”[All Fields]) OR “hiv seropositivity”[All Fields] OR (“hiv”[All Fields] AND “positive”[All Fields]) OR “hiv positive”[All Fields]) AND (“women”[MeSH Terms] OR “women”[All Fields]) AND associated[All Fields] AND factors[All Fields] OR “predictors”[all] OR “determinant factors “[All Fields] AND fields[All Fields] AND (“ethiopia”[MeSH Terms] OR “ethiopia”[All Fields]).803
Other databases98
Gray literature2
Total search903
Numbers candidate for inclusion10
Excluded with reasons1
Studies included in the analysis9