Table 1 Data items that will be extracted

1.

Publication details: title, journal, author, year, city/region in Ethiopia, where the study was conducted, type of publication, and source of funding, if any

2.

Design: type of study design (observational studies, cross sectional, cohort, case control, others); aims or objective of the study, method of data collection, outcome variable (measures and operational definition), response rate, recruitment and sampling method, eligibility (inclusion and exclusion criteria)

3.

Study participants information’s: sample size, population characteristics including settings, role in the institution, age, gender, ethnicity, education level, demographic information’s, behavioral information’s, physical measurements, comorbidities, other health-related characteristics, employment details, work and work-environment related characteristics, bodily distribution of pain

4.

Data for outcome variables: all reported estimates, or sufficient data to calculate an estimate of the point prevalence, cumulative incidence, and incidence rate of musculoskeletal disorders in categories of bodily distribution like low back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, elbow pain, wrist and hand pain, hip pain, knee pain, ankle pain, etc

5.

Limitations: bias (selection, response, information), limitation of outcome measures/tools, and limitation reported by authors