Short birth spacing and its association with maternal educational status, contraceptive use, and duration of breastfeeding in Ethiopia. A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Yitayish Damtie ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: yitutile@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Reproductive and Family Health, School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6783-6097

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• Bereket Kefale ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bereket Kefale, Melaku Yalew

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Reproductive and Family Health, School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

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• Melaku Yalew ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bereket Kefale, Melaku Yalew

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Reproductive and Family Health, School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7314-2523

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• Mastewal Arefaynie ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Reproductive and Family Health, School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9525-0552

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• Bezawit Adane

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

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