Vaginal birth after cesarean section and its associated factors in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: The prevalence of cesarean sections is rising rapidly and is becoming a global issue. Vaginal birth after a cesarean section is one of the safest strategies that can be used to decrease the cesarean section rate. Different fragmented primary studies were done on the success rate of vaginal birth after cesarean section and its associated factors in Ethiopia. However, the findings were controversial and inconclusive. Therefore, this meta-analysis was intended to estimate the pooled success rate of vaginal birth after cesarean section and its associated factors in Ethiopia. Pertinent studies were searched in PubMed, Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, direct open-access journals, and Ethiopian universities' institutional repositories. The data were analyzed using Stata 17. The Newcastle-Ottawa qua

SUBMITTER: Addisu D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10185669 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature