Abstract
A compressive search of electronic databases including: PubMed/Medline, CINAHL (EBSCOhost), SCOPUS, African Journal Online (AJOL) and African Indexed Medicus (AIM) were searched. Heterogeneity test was assessed by Cochrane chi-square (χ<sup>2</sup>) and quantified by I2 statistics test. Sensitivity test and subgroup analysis were performed. Publication bias was determined by funnel plots and Egger's test.
Highlights
The prevalence of anxiety disorders was ranged from 0.03% to 63% (Table 1)
The overall pooled prevalence of anxiety disorder was 8% [95%CI: 4-14%, I2 = 98.36%, p < 0.001 (Figure 1)]
In Ethiopia, though the Government identified children and adolescents as a vulnerable group for mental illness and planned to scale-up the limited mental health services [20,37]; practically, there is a huge gap in policy formulation and implementation at the grassroots level [21] as a results, children and adolescent were not considered as a unique population and served under a mental health services of the adult population
Summary
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness that has an immense impact on the life of children and youth. 10% to 20% of children and adolescents have mental health problems [1,2,3,4,5]. Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental illness with estimated prevalence of 10.6-24.3, 16.6-41 in the adult general population [7,9,10,11,12,13,14]. Evidence showed that nearly one in two adult mental health problems were begin by the age of 14 and the remaining 75% by the mid-20s [7,15,16]. Onset of mental illness associated with chronic course, co-morbid, Accepted: July 03, 2021
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