The prevalence of alcohol use disorders among people living with HIV/AIDS: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Table 2 Sensitivity analysis of all studies based on study quality, tools used, gender and status of the country where the study is conducted

Subgroups	Studies, n	Prevalence (%)	95%CI	Heterogeneity within the study (I², Value)		Heterogeneity between groups (P value)
Subgroups	Studies, n	Prevalence (%)	95%CI	I² (%)	P value	Heterogeneity between groups (P value)
Country
Developed	8	42.09	27.29–58.47	99.38	<0.001	0.028
Developing	17	24.52	19.66–30.14	97.34	<0.001
Tools used
AUDIT	23	31.52	25.66–38.02	98.75	<0.001	<0.001
CIDI	2	13.51	11.86–15.34	2.13	0.312
Gender
Male	15	26.90	19.72–35.53	97.92	<0.001
Female	15	13.37	8.79–19.80	97.03	<0.001	<0.001
Quality of studies						0.598
High	19	28.50	22.42–35.49	98.89	<0.001
Moderate and poor	6	33.19	18.97–51.33	98.54	<0.001