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 R^2 (%)
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