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Prevalence and risk factors of psychoactive substance abuse among students in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.


ABSTRACT:

Background

Substance uses were seen in 18-25 years old age groups who are more than 40% world population, from which Africa was the region with the highest proportion accounting 60% in 2016. This review aimed to assess the burden of substance abuse among students in Ethiopia.

Methods

A comprehensive search was conducted in PubMed/Medline; Science direct and African Online Journal without language and date restriction. The Heterogeneity among the included studies was checked with forest plot, χ2 test, I2 test, and the p-values. All cross-sectional studies reporting rate of prevalence of psychoactive substance among students were included and the rest were excluded.

Result

A total of 545 articles were identified from different databases and 42 articles were selected for evaluation. Twenty-nine Articles with 22, 012 participants were included. The overall prevalence of psychoactive substance abuse was 32.28% (95% confidence interval (CI): 26.74 to 37.82).

Conclusion

The review revealed that one-third of the high school and higher education students used different psychoactive substances in Ethiopia.

Registration

This Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis was registered in Prospero international prospective register of systemic reviews (CRD42020146656) on April 28/2020.

SUBMITTER: Abate SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8437783 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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