Alcohol consumption and its associated factors among pregnant women in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis as given in the submission system

摘要

The following search key terms were used by combing: “alcohol consumption”,” alcohol drinking”, alcohol use”, pregnant women”,” pregnant mother”, “prenatal”, “prevalence”, “frequency”, “occurrence”, “epidemiology”, “determinant factors”, “associated factors”, “influencing factors”,” predictors”, “contributing factors” and “Sub-Saharan Africa”(all Sub-Saharan Africa countries were entered turn by turn). Using all those terms, the search strategies were developed using different Boolean operators like ‘AND’ and ‘OR’ and MeSH Terms accordingly. The main search terms were [((alcohol consumption) OR (alcohol drinking) OR (alcohol use) OR (ethanol use) OR (alcohol exposure)) AND ((pregnant women) OR (pregnant mother) OR (during pregnancy)) AND (Sub-Saharan Africa)] from PubMed. The search was conducted turn by turn in all (46 according to UN Development Program) Sub-Saharan Africa countries [ ] besides the term “Sub-Saharan Africa“.