Prevalence of Urinary Tract Infection and Its Associated Factors among Pregnant Women in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 3

Subgroup analysis which describes pooled burden of UTI and its associated factors among pregnant women in Ethiopia from 2007 to 2018.

Subgroup		No. of studies	Prevalence (95% CI)	Heterogeneity statistics		value
Region	Amhara	5	11.61 (9, 13)	3.03	0.0	0.553
	Tigray	2	16.37 (7, 25)	5.59	82.1	0.018
	SNNPR	2	22.26 (15, 29)	2.70	62.9	0.101
	AA	2	13.09 (9, 16)	0.82	0.0	0.366
	Others	2	20.14 (7, 32)	8.95	88.1	0.003
Publication year	Before 2015	5	12.19 (9, 15)	6.79	41.1	0.143
	2015 & above	6	18.88 (13, 23)	24.13	79.3	<0.001
	Unpublished	2	13.27 (9, 16)	0.67	0.0	0.412
Sampling technique	Consecutive	11	14.92 (12, 17)	30.01	66.7	0.001
	Systematic random	2	18.03 (2, 33)	15.12	92.1	<0.001
Sample size	<250	7	14.51 (10, 18)	22.00	72.1	0.001
	>250	6	16.4 (11, 21)	22.25	77.5	<0.001