Review Article
Mothers’ Care-Seeking Behavior for Common Childhood Illnesses and Its Predictors in Ethiopia: Meta-Analysis
Table 3
Predictors of mothers’ care-seeking behavior for common childhood illnesses in Ethiopia.
| Determinants | Comparison | Number of studies | Sample size | OR (95% CI) | value | (%) | Heterogeneity test ( value) |
| Knowledge | Good vs. poor | 2 | 528 | 1.15 (0.45-3.08) | 0.768 | 95.6 | ≤0.001 | Age of mother | ≤28 years vs. >28 | 2 | 777 | 0.87 (0.25-3.02) | 0.838 | 90.4 | 0.001 | Educational status | No education vs. other1 | 3 | 1522 | 0.33 (0.21-0.54) | ≤ 0.001 | 48.9 | 0.141 | Marital status | Single vs. other2 | 2 | 1329 | 0.35 (0.22-0.55) | ≤ 0.001 | 0.0 | 0.804 | Perceived severity | Yes vs. no | 8 | 4200 | 0.47 (0.17-1.26) | 0.135 | 97.0 | ≤0.001 |
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Others: 1primary and secondary tertiary. Others: 2married, divorced, and widowed.
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