Chalachew Yenew and Biruk Demissie
Background: Intestinal parasitic infection is considered to play an important role in the compromised physical and cognitive growth of children in developing countries, primarily affecting children in resource-limited settings. Better understanding of intestinal parasitic infection is needed to identify and apply important intervention strategies. Various studies have been conducted on intestinal parasitic diseases on school children in a few districts of Ethiopia. But, no study has collected and analyzed this information systematically. This review aims to assess the prevalence of Intestinal parasitic diseases along with primary school children in Ethiopia through systematically evaluating the results of studies conducted in this respect. Methods: In this systematic review study; the required data were collected using combine term prevalence AND Intestinal parasitic Infections OR diseases AND School Children and their Persian equivalents through Google search. Out of 60 articles, 16 articles were at last considered after barring the remaining articles which were not related to the study targets. Finally, conducted a meta-analysis using Review Manager (Rev Man) 5.3 software. Results: The pooled occurrence of intestinal parasitic diseases within primary school children in Ethiopia was 53.64% (95% CI, p-value=0.000 the minimal value was observed in Babile town, eastern Ethiopia (13.82%) and the maximum result registered in Chencha town, Southern Ethiopia (81%) and the relevant data extracted and meta-analysis was conducted and the Time interval of the evaluated articles varied from 2010 to 2018. Conclusion: The overall prevalence of intestinal parasitic infection among school children in Ethiopia was more than 50% so that the improvement of sanitation, personal hygiene, and increased awareness of people, and health education can be effective in reducing parasitic infections in different communities. Keywords: Prevalence; Intestinal parasitic infection; Primary school children; Ethiopia; Systematic review; Meta -analysis
