Double burden of malnutrition and associated factors among adolescent in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As adolescence is a transition period from childhood to adulthood malnutrition occurring at this age resonates through generations. Although there were many individual studies in Ethiopia about different form of malnutrition among adolescent, their results are inconclusive indicating the need for generating a pooled estimate of adolescent nutritional status and associated factors. This review and meta-analyses aimed at estimating the pooled prevalence of different forms of malnutrition and associated factors among adolescents in Ethiopia.

Method and materials

We searched data bases from Pub Med, Cochrane Library, Health Inter Network Access to Research Initiative (HINARI), Science Direct and search engines; Google and Google Scholar and other sources; Reference of

SUBMITTER: Gezaw A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10096189 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature