Table 5 Feminist Appraisal of Studies

Author and Year

Study Conceptual Underpinnings*

Gendered Context in Discussion

Quality of feminist analysis

Ali et al. (2016)

N/A*

Researchers state gender mixing is not socially prescribed in Pakistani culture hence the reason for holding separate focus groups between boys and girls.

Cursory*

Burchet et al. (2019)

N/A

Previous research has shown that access to expensive communication devices tends to vary along age and gender lines.

Older women often relied on their sons or grandsons when it came to the use of communication technologies (24).

Cursory

Carruthers & Pippa (2019)

N/A

N/A

Cursory

Fox & Hiam (2018)

N/A

N/A

Cursory

Grupp et al. (2019)

N/A

Less frequently cultural barriers in accessing healthcare were mentioned predominantly by female participants preferring female doctors and if possible

Cursory

Kiselev et al. (2020)

N/A

Other barriers such as lack of childcare opportunities for women and transport costs were mentioned once each.

Cursory

Knipscheer and Kleber (2001)

Adjusted for age and gender,

Women made relatively more use of the CMHC than men – they reported more MH problems and had greater satisfaction with CMHC services

Cursory

Kohlenberger et al. (2019)

N/A

Unmet health needs and barriers to health access are relevant concerns for recently arrived refugees. Female refugees below 40 years of age report worse health than Austrian women. In

Thorough*

Linney et al. (2020)

N/A

N/A

Cursory

Loewenthal et al. (2012)

N/A

Due to cultural considerations, the four researchers, all of whom were themselves born outside of the UK and, in terms of their languages and cultural backgrounds, members of the respective communities relevant to this study, conducted the focus groups and respondent validation

Moderate*

Markova et al. (2020)

N/A

N/A

Cursory

Mölsä et al. (2019)

Almost 48% of Somali language speakers were female in Finland.

Somali women used less preventive healthcare as compared to other female migrants.

Cursory

Morgan et al. (2017)

N/A

N/A

Cursory

Papadopoulos et al. (2004)

N/A

N/A

Cursory

Pooremamali and Eklund (2017)

N/A

N/A

Cursory

Straiton et al. (2019)

Comparing migrant and descendant women’s use of OPMH services with the majority women using national-level registry data.

Overall, our results suggest that migrant and descendant women use OPMH services to a lesser extent than most women. Descendant women are less likely to use OPMH services, while migrant women are both less likely to use OPMH services and have fewer follow-up consultations for common MH disorders.

Moderate

Tabassum et al. (2009)

A secondary aim of exploring the needs of women, for MH services.

N/A

Moderate

Van Loenen et al.

(2018)

N/A

Less frequently cultural barriers in accessing healthcare were mentioned predominantly by female participants preferring female doctors and if possible, from the same geographical/cultural background.

Cursory

Whittaker et al. (2005)

Exploring individual and collective understandings of psychological well-being among young Somali asylum-seeker or refugee women.

The findings of the research highlight the tensions for the women participants when religious interpretations were used to constrain gender roles

Moderate