Prevalence and factors associated with child marriage, a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Girl child marriage is increasingly recognized as a critical barrier to global public health and gender discrimination. There are still more gaps in the global rate of child marriage and the underlying factors. Thus, the present systematic review aimed to explore the prevalence of child marriage and the underlying factors.

Methods

A comprehensive search was conducted for all English-language studies that measured the prevalence of child marriage and its correlates from 2000 to March 2022, indexed in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Poplin, and Google Scholar databases. Child marriage is defined as marriage under the age of 18. In the present study, Joanna Briggs' quality assessment checklist was used for data collection. Two independent reviewers reviewed all the a

SUBMITTER: Pourtaheri A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10565969 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature