Burden, impacts and management practices of dysmenorrhea among female students in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: Dysmenorrhea is a public health problem worldwide, and affects more than half of reproductive-age females in Ethiopia. Despite dysmenorrhea having being studied, this has not covered the impacts and management of dysmenorrhea. Therefore, this review aimed at critically appraising, synthesizing and presenting the evidence on the burden, impacts and management methods of dysmenorrhea among females in Ethiopia. International databases (SCOPUS, CINAHL, CAB Abstract, EMBASE, PubMed, Web of Science, Google and Google Scholar) and lists of references were employed to search literature in Ethiopia. The overall burden of dysmenorrhea was presented using a random-effects model for the reported proportion by forest plot using STATA version 18. The heterogeneity of the studies was determined using p=0

SUBMITTER: Balis B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12406797 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature