prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding in iran: systematic review and meta-analysis

background and aims: the world health organization and united nations children’s fund (unicef) recommended executive breastfeeding for 6 months after birth. the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of executive breastfeeding in iran by a meta-analysis study to be used by policy-makers in order to health programmer plan in this field. methods: in this meta-analysis study, the databases of isi web of knowledge, pubmed, science direct, scopus, google scholar and domestic databases were searched between january 2007 and march 2015. between the studies with regard to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 16 studies were selected. data were analyzed using stata 11 software. results: sever heterogeneity was observed among reported prevalence based on the results of chi-square based on q test and i2 statistics (q=6132.55, p