Preventive practices toward sexually transmitted infections and their determinants among young people in Ethiopia: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Globally, the estimated annual number of new cases of curable sexually transmitted infections occurring among young people aged 15-24 years is approximately 178.5 million. There are fragmented and inconsistent findings on preventive practices for sexually transmitted infections. Thus, this systematic review and meta-analysis protocol aimed to estimate the pooled prevalence of preventive practices of sexually transmitted infections and identify its determinants among young people in Ethiopia.

Methods

The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) will be used to develop the review protocol. Online databases such as PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus, Google, and Google Scholar will be used to search published and unpublished studies. The Joanna

SUBMITTER: Anbesu EW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8812866 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature