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Under-five anemia and its associated factors with dietary diversity, food security, stunted, and deworming in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Prevalence of anemia and its associated factors among children aged 6-23 months, in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta analysis.BMC public health · 2023Pooled it
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- Child-Owned Poultry Intervention Effects on Hemoglobin, Anemia, Concurrent Anemia and Stunting, and Morbidity Status of Young Children in Southern Ethiopia: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Community Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- Association of dietary diversity with anaemia among children (6 mo-9 y) in Puducherry, South India: A cross-sectional study.The Indian journal of medical research · 2026Article
- Dietary diversity and the triple burden of malnutrition among children aged 6-23 months in 62 low- and middle-income countries: an analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys.Journal of global health · 2026Article
- The Effect of Anemia on Mortality in Children Hospitalized with Severe Pneumonia in Uganda.The Journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- Modelling the impact of dietary diversity on child nutrition in Pakistan: a machine learning analysis with Shapley Additive exPlanations and Boruta interpretability.Journal of global health · 2026Article
- Anemia among children (6 To 59 months) in Qoloji internally displaced people camp, Somali Region, eastern Ethiopia.Conflict and health · 2026Article
- The Association Between Food Insecurity and Adverse Health Outcomes in Children and Adolescents: An Umbrella Review.Food science & nutrition · 2026Review
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- Characteristics of Anemia in Children Aged 6 Months to 5 Years Attending External Consultations at a Pediatric Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Optimizing minimum dietary diversity: examining appropriate complementary feeding practices and influencing factors among children aged 6-23 months in Ghana; a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Prevalence and determinants of stunting and anaemia in children aged 6-23 months: A multilevel analysis from rural Ethiopia.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- Socio-ecological determinants of multiple anthropometric failures among under-five children: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- The link between child dietary diversity and child anemia: The power of colorful plates.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Anaemia and associated factors among children aged 6-59 months during the post-ebola period in Sierra Leone: a national cross-sectional survey- 2019.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2024Article
- Childhood undernutrition mediates the relationship between open defecation with anemia among Ethiopian children: a nationally representative cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Minimum dietary diversity and associated determinants among children aged 6-23 months in Pakistan.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Household environment associated with anaemia among children aged 6-59 months in Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis of Ethiopia demographic and health survey (2005-2016).BMC public health · 2024Article
- Prevalence of anemia and its associated factors among under-five children living in Arba Minch Health and Demographic Surveillance System Sites (HDSS), Southern Ethiopia.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundAnemia is the most common hematologic disorder of children in the globe. There are fragmented and inconclusive study findings on under-five anemia in Ethiopia. Understanding the distribution of anemia is an important step for program planners and policymakers. Therefore, this systematic review was aimed to assess the pooled prevalence of anemia and associated factors with dietary diversity, food security, stunted, and deworming in Ethiopia.
methodsWe searched through African journals of online, Google Scholar, CINHAL, PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane library, and Scopus. Reviewers used standardized format to extract the data. The data was exported to Stata version 11 software for analysis after extracted by Microsoft excel. The DerSimonian-Laird random-effect model was used to assess the pooled prevalence of under-five anemia. Variation between studies (heterogeneity) was assessed by I
resultFrom 561 studies, 16 articles were included in this review. The pooled prevalence of under-five anemia in Ethiopia was 44.83%. In subgroup analysis, the higher pooled prevalence of anemia was observed from children's age less than 2 years old (50.36%) (95% CI 39.53, 61.18). Poor dietary diversity OR = 1.71 (1.10, 2.68), stunting OR = 2.59 (2.04, 3.28), food insecurity OR = 2.87 (1.25, 6.61), and not dewormed OR = 2.34 (1.77, 3.09) were predictors of under-five anemia.
conclusionThe magnitude of under-five anemia in this study was extremely high. Therefore, increased coverage of supplementation and fortification programs, periodic deworming, feeding diversified food, supplement food for those who are stunted, and securing food in the households may all alleviate under-five anemia.
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